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Of the four great European dictators of the 20th century, Mussolini remains the least known. 1990s and spent time investigating the forgeries and writing about the resurgence of Mussolini's reputation, 50 years after his death. Farrell shows how Italy was changed very much for the better until Mussolini's final and disastrous decision to join the Axis and support Hitler. Could he have followed Franco's example and stayed on the sidelines? It is one of the questions Farrell examines.
How did Mussolini manage to take power and hold onto it through two decades? What inspired Churchill to call him 'the Roman genius' and Pope Pius XI to say he was 'sent by Providence'? How did he manage to do away with democracy and not use mass murder to stay in command? Mussolini ruled by popular demand but his fatal error was his alliance with Hitler, whom he despised. This union, according to Nicholas Farrell, was far from inevitable, the result more of Anglo-French incompetence and his fear of Hitler than a wild desire for war or world domination, let alone the extermination of the Jews. Drawing on a vast range of fresh material, Nicholas Farrell presents an intriguing and startling new picture of one of the key figures of the twentieth century.
O Mito Santificador de J. R. R. Tolkien: Interpretando a Terra Média é o livro que faltava para os curiosos e fanáticos pelo universo tolkiano, pois, em tempos em que a série Os Anéis de Poder reavivou o interesse mundial pelas obras do filólogo e romancista sul-africano, se faz mais do que necessário um estudo suscinto e direto para explicar as simbologias, crenças e rastros biográficos de Tolkien que permeiam a Terra Média e seus habitantes. Bradley J. Birzer já é conhecido nos estados Unidos por seus trabalhos no ramo da história moderna, mas também por sua pesquisa aprofundada das obras de J.R.R. Tolkien. E, sabendo de antemão que o ambiente e diálogos dos personagens de ...
In the early stages of the Second World War, the vast crescent of British-ruled territories stretching from India to Singapore appeared as a massive Allied asset. It provided scores of soldiers and great quantities of raw materials and helped present a seemingly impregnable global defense against the Axis. Yet, within a few weeks in 1941-42, a Japanese invasion had destroyed all this, sweeping suddenly and decisively through south and southeast Asia to the Indian frontier, and provoking the extraordinary revolutionary struggles which would mark the beginning of the end of British dominion in the East and the rise of today's Asian world. More than a military history, this gripping account of ...
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Declared a terrorist menace yet elected to government in a free election, Hamas now stands as the most important Sunni Islamist group in the Middle East. How did Hamas grow to be so powerful? Who supports it? What is its future? This essential insight into Hamas answers these questions. Milton-Edwards and Farrell have between them spent decades researching and reporting from the heartlands of the Hamas movement and gained unrivalled access to the world of Islamic resistance and radical Islam in its potent Palestinian form. Drawing on their frontline experiences of recent events, their access to secret documents from the western intelligence community and interviews with leaders, militants, a...