Mussolini, Jasper Ridley
Mussolini, Jasper Ridley
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Mussolini

Author: Jasper Ridley

Narrator: Nadia May

Unabridged: 15 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007

Synopsis

Historian Jasper Ridley brings us this comprehensive biography of the man who invented fascismBenito Mussolini, widely regarded as one of the arch villains of the twentieth century. A complex and contradictory figure, Mussolini won the fascination of many statesmen and writersand their wives. From his early years raised in the traditions of revolutionary Italian Socialism to his violent execution by Communist partisans at the end of World War II, we watch Mussolinis power ambitions erode his political ideals as he evolves from brilliant orator and journalist to empirebuilding dictator enforcing his authority by death squads. A man initially admired by such Western luminaries as Winston Churchill, or underestimated as a posturing buffoon, he eventually showed his true colors as a racist and persecutor of the Jews. He sought equal stature with Hitler, but his alliance with him would prove disastrous.

About Jasper Ridley

Jasper Ridley has written many successful biographies of forceful and vivid characters in the sixteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, among them Lord Palmerston, Napoleon III and Eugénie, Henry VIII, and Garibaldi. His books have been acclaimed in the United States, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic and Latin America. His most recently published book is a biography of Marshal Tito.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Juan Guillermo Vásquez Mejía on March 06, 2023

Para ser un biografía, desde mi punto de vista, está muy bien escrita, hace fácil su lectura y es muy clara en lo que quiere expresar. Me gustó bastante. Creo que no lo sufrí tanto como esperaba (Leer biografías es complejo para mí), por eso hago mención al sufrimiento.......more

Goodreads review by Jaye on February 09, 2020

This is the third book about Mussolini I have read from a British historian and it is definitely the worst. The style is odd, as Ridley appears to be going for chronological, but it comes across as fragmented and often he will double back to return to an event that happened earlier (for example, he......more

Goodreads review by Augustine Serio on September 25, 2014

Mussolini: A Biography l have read other bios of Mussolini but this one by Ridley is at the top of my list. The narrative was most interesting and I learned many new and personal facts about Il Duce. I recommend this book to all history buffs.......more

Goodreads review by Steven on August 06, 2020

A thorough account of Mussolini the man AND the leader. Ridley has drawn a full picture of the Italy Il Duce lived in and ruled. The author balances the two concepts (biography and national portrait) very effectively. Even before the successful Fascist March on Rome in 1922, Mussolini lived a very f......more

Goodreads review by Tom on November 27, 2023

I found this book quite fascinating, though at only 370 pages, it was lacking the depth that I think is needed in a biography of a major figure such of Mussolini. I haven't actually read much on Italian history, and I was pleasently surprised at how interesting the story of Mussolini and Italian fas......more

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