Italo Balbo A Fascist Life

Name: Italo Balbo A Fascist Life
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ISBN: 9780520071995

ISBN-10: 0520071999

ISBN-13: 9780520071995

Edition: 1988

Authors: Claudio G. Segre

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Pioneering aviator, blackshirt leader, colonial governor, confidante and heir-apparent to Benito Mussolini, the dashing and charismatic Italo Balbo exemplified the ideals of Fascist Italy during the 1920s and 30s. He earned national notoriety after World War I as a ruthlesssquadristawhose blackshirt forces crushed socialist and trade union organizations. As Minister of Aviation from 1926 to 1933, he led two internationally heralded mass trans-Atlantic flights. When his aerial armada reached the U. S., Chicago honored him with a Balbo Avenue, New York staged a ticker-tape parade, and President Roosevelt invited him to lunch. As colonial governor from 1933 to 1940, Balbo transformed Libya…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/9/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 482
Size: 7.52" wide x 8.94" long x 1.24" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English