Mussolini (Volumes 1 and 2) (Illustrated Text) (With CD-ROM)

Author: Niu Jingli
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: He was the son of a blacksmith but did not faithfully spend his life working in the blacksmith's shop. Instead, he ascended to the throne of Prime Minister of Italy. He had been immersed in hardship, working as a laborer, a cutter, and a kitchen helper. But hardship did not temper his honest and noble humanity; instead, it fostered a twisted personality—stubborn, indifferent, selfish, irritable, and eccentric. He was arrested and imprisoned time and again, yet miraculously found himself performing on the political stage of Italy, Europe, and even the world. He once roamed the streets, homeless, yet dramatically found himself residing in the king's palace, stealing the king's job, indulging in wine, women, and song, living a life of revelry. He had been a mischievous student but somehow obtained a history degree and rose to become a prominent figure in the Italian Fascist Party, inciting a devastating world war that destroyed humanity. He had also been a teacher and edited newspapers and magazines, but he could not endure solitude and instead took on the role of a dreamer of a new Roman Empire. This man, born on a peaceful day, brought unrest to the people of the world and became an era's war demon and bloody executioner—Benito Mussolini.
Mussolini, this ruthless, fickle fascist dictator, was a complete hypocrite. He firmly believed in sorcery, divination, and astrology, building his greed and glory on nothing more than empty spiritualism. He once boasted of being the reincarnation of Caesar or Napoleon, yet he could never truly rival them. He discriminated against women but was also an absolute lecher, treating women as mere objects to be "consumed" and compelled to obey his desires and tastes.