Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy (Paperback)

"A fascinating exploration of the letters that `ordinary' Italians who supported fascism wrote to Mussolini in the 1920s and 1930s" * Glasgow Sunday Herald *
"This original, revealing and disturbing book provides a grassroots view of fascist Italy" * Independent *
"Duggan's superbly researched book uncovers the nasty reality of [Mussolini's] regime and demonstrates that there was a disturbing symbiotic relationship between fascism and the Catholic Church" * Mail on Sunday *
"In his magnificent new book, a pathbreaking study that everyone interested in Fascism, or in Italy past and present, should read, Christopher Duggan fills the gap by examining a wide range of diaries... This enables Duggan to deliver not merely a detailed account of popular attitudes towards the regime, but, far more, a general history of Fascism that for the first time treats it, not as a tyranny that allowed ordinary Italians no possibility of expressing themselves freely, nor as the brutal dictatorship of a capitalist class that reduced the great majority of the country's citizens to the status of victims, but as a regime rooted strongly in popular aspirations and desires." -- Richard J. Evans * London Review of Books *
"Magnificent...a pathbreaking study that everyone interested in fascism, or in Italy past and present, should read" * London Review of Books *