Brutal Friendship: Mussolini, Hitler and the Fall of Italian Fascism

Rating:
Summary: Interesting - with reservations
Review: This book presents a valuable record of the relationship at the top of the two more coordinated Axis powers, a record that is otherwise not much available or featured in works in English. It is particularly noteworthy for access to the writings of Rahn, the German Plenipotentiary in Italy, and Anfuso, the Italian Ambassador to Berlin. However. it is monotnously dreary in its excessive recounting of the decline of the Salo Republic that succeeded to the nominal rule of Northern Italy after Mussolini's ouster by the Fascist Supreme Council. Moreover, the writing itself is often shockingly obtuse, especially for a man of Deakin's background, and could well have benefited from better editorship.