Article: The Fall of Mussolini: Italy, the Italians, and the Second World War.(Book review)

The Fall of Mussolini: Italy, the Italians, and the Second World War. By Philip Morgan. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. ix, 263. $29.95.)

This fine monograph does much more than describe the end of Mussolini's regime. It asks why Italians remember the war the way that they do, emphasizing the brutality of the German occupation and the victimization of Italians rather than memorializing the victims of Italy's 1940 to 1943 war of aggression. In casting about for an answer, Philip Morgan's social history concentrates on the lives of ordinary Italians and their testimony about their experiences in the war. He writes of the gradual deterioration ...

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