Fascist Voices

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

Draws on a vast range of private letters and diaries to find out what ordinary people thought about the regime that ruled them between 1922 and 1945

Christopher Silvester, Daily Express

Draws on a vast range of private letters and diaries

Christopher Silvester, Scottish Sunday Express

Excellent new history of Italian Fascism

Ian Thomson, Financial Times

An elegantly written study that is the work of a historian at the height of his powers

History Today

Magnificent...a pathbreaking study that everyone interested in fascism, or in Italy past and present, should read

London Review of Books

Fluid and absorbing

Times Literary Supplement