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Free Download The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler-How War Made Them and How They Made War by Phillips Payson O’Brien
English | August 27, 2024 | ISBN: 1524746487 | 544 pages | PDF | 27 Mb
Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist.

Free Download Mussolini Warlord: Failed Dreams of Empire, 1940-1943 by H. James Burgwyn
English | July 10, 2012 | ISBN: 1936274299 | 456 pages | PDF | 3.14 Mb
Fascist Italy has received far too little attention in the military history of the Axis partnership. This is the first comprehensive study of Benito Mussolini’s military efforts to build an empire during World War II.

Free Download B. Painter, "Mussolini’s Rome: Rebuilding the Eternal City "
English | ISBN: 1403980020 | 2005 | 220 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
In 1922 the Fascist ‘March on Rome’ brought Benito Mussolini to power. He promised Italians that his fascist revolution would unite them as never before and make Italy a strong and respected nation internationally. In the next two decades, Mussolini set about rebuilding the city of Rome as the site and symbol of the new fascist Italy. Through an ambitious program of demolition and construction he sought to make Rome a modern capital of a nation and an empire worthy of Rome’s imperial past. Building the new Rome put people to work, ‘liberated’ ancient monuments, cleared slums, produced new "cities" for education, sports, and cinema, produced wide new streets, and provided the regime with a setting to showcase fascism’s dynamism, power, and greatness. Mussolini’s Rome thus embodied the movement, the man and the myth that made up fascist Italy.

Free Download The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler: How War Made Them and How They Made War (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CVSTCN7B | 2024 | 18 hours and 9 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 529 MB
Author: Phillips Payson O’Brien
Narrator: Justin Price
Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist. In The Strategists, Professor Phillips Payson O’Brien shows how the views these five leaders forged in WW1 are crucial to understanding how they fought WW2. For example, Churchill’s experiences of facing the German Army in France in 1916 made him unwilling to send masses of British soldiers back there in the 1940s, while Hitler’s mistakes on the Eastern Front were influenced by his reluctance to accept that conditions had changed since his own time fighting. The implications of the power of leaders remain with us to this day: to truly understand what is happening in Ukraine, for example, requires us to know what has influenced the leaders involved. This is a history in which leaders-and their choices-matter. For better or worse.

Free Download The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler-How War Made Them and How They Made War by Phillips Payson O’Brien
English | August 27th, 2024 | ISBN: 1524746487 | 544 pages | True EPUB | 23.31 MB
Churchill. Hitler. Stalin. Mussolini. Roosevelt. Five of the most impactful leaders of WW2, each with their own individualistic and idiosyncratic approach to warfare. But if we want to understand their military strategy, we must first understand the strategist.

Free Download Frank Joseph, "Mussolini’s War: Fascist Italy’s Military Struggles from Africa and Western Europe to the Mediterranean and Soviet Union 1935-45"
English | 2010 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1906033560 | EPUB | 7,0 mb
Among the great misconceptions of modern times is the assumption that Benito Mussolini was Hitler’s junior partner, who made no significant contributions to the Second World War. That conclusion originated with Allied propagandists determined to boost Anglo-American morale, while undermining Axis cooperation. The Duce’s failings, real or imagined, were inflated and ridiculed; his successes, pointedly demeaned or ignored. Italy’s bungling navy, ineffectual army – as cowardly as it was ill-equipped – and air force of antiquated biplanes were handily dealt with by the Western Allies. So effective was this disinformation campaign that it became post-war history, and is still generally taken for granted even by otherwise well-informed scholars and students of World War Two. But a closer examination of recently disclosed, and often neglected, original source materials presents an entirely different picture.

Free Download Iron Hulls, Iron Hearts: Mussolini’s Elite Armoured Divisions in North Africa By Ian W. Walker
2006 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 1861268394 | EPUB | 11 MB
The campaign in North Africa during World War Two was one of the most important of the conflict. The allies fought for control of North Africa against the German Afrika Korps led by Rommel. But the part played by Mussolini’s Italian troops, and in particular the armored divisions, in support of the Germans is not so well known.

Free Download Mussolini and Hitler: The Forging of the Fascist Alliance by Christian Goeschel, Matthew Waterson, Tantor Audio
English | 2018 | ISBN: B07HCPJGTB | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 12 hours and 27 minutes + EPUB | 171 Mb
From 1934 until 1944, Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini’s influence on his German ally.
Goeschel, a scholar of 20th-century Germany and Italy, revisits all of Mussolini and Hitler’s key meetings and asks how these meetings constructed a powerful image of a strong Fascist-Nazi relationship that still resonates with the general public. His portrait of Mussolini draws on sources ranging beyond political history to reveal a leader who, at times, shaped Hitler’s decisions and was not the gullible buffoon he’s often portrayed as. The first comprehensive study of the Mussolini-Hitler relationship, this book is a must-listen for scholars and anyone interested in the history of European fascism, World War II, or political leadership.

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Free Download Mussolini in Myth and Memory: The First Totalitarian Dictator (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CKWK6K8K | 2023 | 5 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 301 MB
Author: Paul Corner
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a totalitarian dictator; Hitler and Stalin have always cast too long a shadow. But what was a negative judgement on the Duce, considered innocuous and ineffective, has begun to work to his advantage. As has occurred with many other European dictators, present-day popular memory of Mussolini is increasingly indulgent; in Italy and elsewhere he is remembered as a strong, decisive leader. Mussolini in Myth and Memory argues against this rehabilitation, documenting the inefficiencies, corruption, and violence of a highly repressive regime and exploding the myths of fascist good government.