Benito Mussolini: A Life From Beginning to End

Disappointing - should stick to facts

This was not a good book. It had a lot of facts I didn't know, but the book itself is poorly written. There is a ton of ‘you' type comments and other supposition. Examples: saying you could hardly blame them if former colleagues were shocked; anyone with eyes in their head would know; and a whole paragraph about what Hitler thought when Mussolini wanted to retire.

Most egregious was probably this tidbit, which has no place in a historical book: “It makes you think that if Mussolini lived today in such a situation, you might have found him slumped over in the corner fiddling with his cell phone, updating his Facebook and Twitter accounts rather than paying attention to his fellow elected officials.”