Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945 - Paperbackby R. J. B. Bosworth (Author) With Mussolini 's Italy, R. J. B. Bosworth the foremost scholar on the subject writing in English vividly brings to life the period in which Italians participated in one of the twentieth century's most notorious political experiments. Il Duce's Fascists were the original totalitarians, espousing a cult of violence and obedience that inspired many other dictatorships, Hitler's first among them. But as Bosworth reveals,