UNLIKE HITLER OR Stalin, of whom there are any number of decent modern biographies, Mussolini still seems ill-served by historians, at least those writing in English. A couple of years ago the Australian Richard Bosworth had a go, to no great effect, and now Nicholas Farrell has produced 'A New Life' of the bald bruiser from the Romagna.

Readers of The Spectator will know Farrell's vignettes of life in present-day Predappio - the town where Mussolini was born and where his family tomb, replete with a marble bust of the former Duce, attracts both the curious and the Fascist faithful, no doubt to the postembarrassment of Italy's current

Literary Review

Jul 2003

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Michael Burleigh

Mixed Signals

Who Will Rule the Waves?

The View from the Ivory Towers

Et Tu, Rishi?

Tear Down These Peace Walls

Quis Custodiet?

Once Upon a Time in Ukraine

Pirates of the Aegean

Age of the Pangolin

Too Bored to Vote?

Pedestal Pushers

The Lies Have It

The View from Beijing

Beyond the Black Stuff

Out with Battleships, In with Bakeries

Murder on the Mind

Taking Aim at Apartheid

All the President’s Hitmen

Imminent Return to Chaos & War

Dreaming of Rhodesia?

Majority Report

Apocalypse Nearly

Lone Star Study

Lethal Intelligence

Continental Shift