Black-Shirt: The Rise and Fall of a Benito Mussolini - Graham Fisher and Michael McNair-Wilson - 1961 Belmont Books Paperback

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Blurb: “A chronicled account of the life and times of Benito Mussolini... Clara Petacci... the height of the power of Fascism in Italy: The Duce's alliance with Hitler, entry into World War Il, his domination by Hitler, his arrest, dramatic rescue by the Nazis, and the climax of his decline and fall.“

In the records of monstrous men who have drenched the pages of history with blood, a special chapter must be written about Il Duce Benito.

Mussolini, the dictator of

Fascist Italy.

Here was a man who burned with ambition, and ended despised by the world... hang• ing by his heels in the public square alongside his mistress Clara Petacci... spat upon by his own people.

BLACK-SHIRT is the true chronicle of that terrible decline and fall. It is the story of a man driven by lusts:

The lust to rebuild his country, found an empire, and become a Twentieth Century Caesar...

The lust for personal power that drove him to embrace Adolf Hitler... and led to his downfall....

The lust for women, which found its most passionate outlet in the strange affair with the beautiful young Clara Petacci...

BLACK-SHIRT, now released for the first time anywhere, has been prepared with the cooperation of official and also secret sources. The authors, accredited European journalists, have written for Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Playboy, and other top world-circulation publications.