Article: Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and Britain in the 1940s.(Book Review)

by Dave Renton. Basingstoke and London, Macmillan, 2000. ix, 203 pp. $69.95 U.S. (cloth).

Whilst its topic has been covered before, this is the first detailed, book-length study of the attempts of fascism in general, and Sir Oswald Mosley's Union Movement in particular, to relaunch themselves in Britain after 1945.

Based on its author's doctoral thesis, Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and Britain in the 1940s is in four sections, the first of which promises to tell "what actually happened" in the history of British fascism, 1918-1951--presumably as a corrective to earlier efforts. Indeed Renton sharply censures those writers whose work has been "distorted" by ...

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