Mussolini and the British

From: RUSI Journal | Date: February 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

MUSSOLINI AND THE BRITISH

by Richard Lamb, (John Murray, London, 1997), f25, 324 pages

The common British view of Mussolini is of an arrogant and uncivilised bully, whose anti-Britishness made him a natural ally of Hitler. Not so, says Richard Lamb, in his splendid new book. Mussolini was not all bad. ('the greatest lawgiver among living men', wrote Churchill in 1933), and he was well disposed towards Britain. Even as late as 1937, Lamb believes, Mussolini would have preferred to have allied himself with Britain and France rather than with Germany, but the disastrous British policy of ...

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