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Article: Mussolini: a New Life.(Book Review)
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- National Observer - Australia and World Affairs
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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MUSSOLINI: A NEW LIFE by Nicholas Farrell London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003, pp. 533.
The hero of that minor movie classic Groundhog Day may have resented needing to endure the same twenty-four hours again and again, but others view such incurable chronological repetitiveness as positively desirable. Leftist English-language commentators on Mussolini, for example, seldom weary from contemplating the joys of 26 April 1945. For them, the treatment upon that date of the ex-dictator's bullet-riddled, mud-spattered, bloodied and generally befouled corpse (in Milan's Piazzale Loreto) is the perfect pill to purge melancholy. But since even the most assiduous leftist ...