In 1935 my father, Jimmy the Barber, escaped the clutches of Mussolini just weeks before he was to be drafted into the fascist Army. In the U.S., he was a resident alien from Italy — a country that ...
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Downfall of Italy: 1943

This video covers the dramatic collapse of Fascist Italy during 1943. It explores Mussolini’s weakening grip on power, the Allied invasion of Sicily, and the turning tide of World War II in the ...
Excellent guest column by Dan Lombardo about Mussolini [“Lessons from the rise and fall of Mussolini,” Gazette, Dec. 12]. He gives a lot of history in a few well-chosen words. The parallel to Trump is ...
A new eight-part series by MUBI chronicles the ferocious rise of the Italian dictator. While the show is a bit too eager to make Mussolini entertaining, the story it tells couldn't be any more timely.