
Mussolini's War
Fascist Italy from Triumph to Collapse: 1935-1943
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Narrated by:
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Bruce Mann
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By:
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John Gooch
While staying closely aligned with Hitler, Mussolini remained carefully neutral until the summer of 1940. At that moment, with the wholly unexpected and sudden collapse of the French and British armies, Mussolini declared war on the Allies in the hope of making territorial gains in Southern France and Africa. This decision proved a horrifying miscalculation, dooming Italy to its own prolonged and unwinnable war, immense casualties, and an Allied invasion in 1943 that ushered in a terrible new era for the country.
John Gooch's new history is the definitive account of Italy's war experience. Beginning with the invasion of Abyssinia and ending with Mussolini's arrest, Gooch brilliantly portrays the nightmare of a country with too small an industrial sector, too incompetent a leadership, and too many fronts on which to fight.
Everywhere - whether in the USSR, the Western Desert, or the Balkans - Italian troops found themselves against either better-equipped or more motivated enemies. The result was a war entirely at odds with the dreams of pre-war Italian planners - a series of desperate improvisations against an allied force who could draw on global resources and against whom Italy proved helpless.
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Detailed, but quite boring.
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Not Bad
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Nice detailed account of Facist Italy during WWII.
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the worst narrator you could ask for
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Skip this book and find something better to listen to.
Detail but no story
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Difficult read
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So if you are looking for insight into who and what kind of man Mussolini was, I don't believe you will find it here, at least not without pushing yourself through hours and hours of battle minutia. There may be some insights sprinkled in there but I'm not going to invest that much time in looking for them. I'll look elsewhere.
Reads like an undergraduate term paper
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