Summary: On the day of a huge rally celebrating Hitler's visit to Rome, which underscored the infamous alliance between the Nazis and Mussolini's fascist regime, a brief encounter between a weary housewife and a radio announcer unfolds into an intimate drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SPEMoseley, Ray
Contents: The last spectator -- After the fall -- Birth of the Salò republic -- The fate of the Roman Jews -- Mussolini and Claretta -- A most unhappy family -- Galeazzo Ciano and Edda -- Troubles on all fronts -- The Partisan war develops -- Il duce and the Jews -- The liberation of Rome -- A terrible summer -- More atrocities, greater despair -- "I have ruined Italy" -- The secret negotiations -- In...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Taylor Trade Pub. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MUSBosworth, R. J. B.
Summary: An evaluation of Italy's notorious Fascist period under dictator Benito Mussolini considers its violence and demands for obedience, noting how it served as a model for other twentieth-century dictatorships while arguing that the nation's largely undeveloped country and tribal family structures helped Italians to devise creative survival and resistance methods.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.091 BOSAdams, Henry Hitch
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1982
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 940.53 WORSummary: He was the world’s first Fascist dictator, a man with grandiose visions of restoring the Roman Empire. His exaltation of violence inspired Hitler. And yet, in the 1920s, world leaders were full of praise for Benito Mussolini and his anti-Communist stance. This program examines the rise of Italian Fascism - from its roots in Italy’s humiliating loss in the WWI battle of Caporetto to the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Axelrod, Alan
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha 2001