Article: The lure of the iron fist;BY CHARLES TOWNSHEND FASCISM: A History by Roger Eatwell, Chatto pounds 20

IT is possible to write bad books about fascism, but it should be hard to write a dull one. No political spectre haunts our century with such spine-chilling terror. Fascism was the great trauma of modernity. The 19th century's faith in the steady march of progress and peace was brutally shattered by an irruption of ostentatious violence, deliberate irrationality and murderous intolerance. The thoughtful bourgeois was replaced by the instinctual "new man", Hitler's tiger-eyed "blond beast". In the most ideological and genocidal of total wars, 55 million people died.

At least the irruption was fairly short-lived. The "thousand year Reich" barely survived a decade. Mussolini and Hitler ...

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