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For almost all nations the First World War was an unparalleled disaster, but the Italian experience especially was to have catastrophic consequences. Weakened and embittered, trying and failing to come to terms with 600,000 dead and with an entire generation of men militarized by fighting, Italy gave birth to a new form of political life: Fascism. Richard Bosworth brings to life the period when Italians participated in a vast and ultimately ruinous political experiment under their dictator, Benito Mussolini, and his fascist henchmen. The fascists were the first totalitarians, aiming to...

Examines the relationship between ideology and politics in the the Second World War's origins, dynamics and consequences.

Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima explores the way in which the main combatant societies of the Second World War have historicized that experience. Since 1945, debates in Germany about the past that would not fade away have been reasonably well-known. But in this book, Richard Bosworth maintains that Germany is not unique. He argues that in Britain, France, Italy, the USSR and Japan, as well as in Germany, the traumatic history of the long Second World War has remained crucial to the culture and the politics of post-war societies. Each has felt a compelling need to interpret this past event...

Examines the relationship between ideology and politics in the the Second World War's origins, dynamics and consequences.

Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima explores the way in which the main combatant societies of the World War II have interpreted and related that experience. Since 1945, debates in Germany about the past that would not fade away have been reasonably well-known.