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Here, for the first time in one volume, are two rare autobiographical works by Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), founder of Fascism and Italian dictator for twenty-one years. The first volume (published in English in 1928 as My Autobiography ) describes Mussolini's youth, years as an agitator and journalist, experiences in World War I, the formation and revolutionary struggles of the Fascist Party, the March on Rome, and his early years in power. The second volume (published in English in 1948 as The Fall of Mussolini ) was written during the brief period between his rescue by the Germans in September 1943 and his execution by Italian partisans in April 1945. Here the Duce recounts his last year in power and the coup d'etat that deposed him. My Rise and Fall allows readers to view the dictator from two unique vantage points: Il Duce, eyes on the horizon, chin thrust forward, as he nears his political zenith and Mussolini at his nadir, a desperate, powerless, sawdust Caesar, soon to be shot and hanged, head down, for all to scorn.
Contents
My Rise * Foreword by Richard Washburn Child * A Sulphurous Land * My Father * The Book of Life * War and Its Effect upon a Man * Ashes and Embers * The Death Struggle of a Worn-Out Democracy * The Garden of Fascism * Toward Conquest of Power * Thus We Took Rome * Five Years of Government * New Paths * The Fascist State and the Future * En Route My Fall * Preface: The Mussolini Story by Max Ascoli * Twenty-four Hours * The People * The King * The Allies * That Man Mussolini * This Book * Editors Note * Table of Events The Fall of Mussolini by Benito Mussolini * From El Alamein to Mareth * From Pantelleria to Sicily * The Landing in Sicily * Invasion and Crisis * From the Meeting with Hitler at Feltre to the Night Session of the Fascist Grand Council * The Grand Council Meeting * From Villa Savoia to Ponza * From Ponza to La Maddalena to the Gran Sasso * The Dynasty Sounds a First Call of Alarm * Toward Surrender * September on the Gran Sasso DItalia * The Crown Council and Surrender * Eclipse or Decline? * A Stork on the Gran Sasso * One of the Many: The Count of Mordano * The Drama of Dual Rule: From the March on Rome to the Speech of January Third * The Drama of Dual Rule: From the Establishment of the Grand Council to the Conspiracy of July 1943 * One of the Many: The Executioner * The Meeting of October 15, 1940 at Palazzo Venezia * Appendix * Key to Names and Places
