Mussolini's War Volume 2

<p>Mussolini's War: Apotheosis completes the two- Triumphant Years-Volume 1. Volume 2 opens by describing Italy's deplorable post-World War I conditions when they were swept away by the Fascist revolution. Because it threatened the corrupt Old Order of liberalism and Marxism both allied to destroy Benito Mussolini. By 1942 their war against him was faltering due to</p><p>Italian victories across the Mediterranean Sea and North Africa. Later that year however enemy cryptanalysts broke the Axis code enabling them to read every secret order before it could be carried out. Supply convoys to the Libyan Desert were destroyed stranding Mussolini's troops without ammunition fuel food or water. The tide of battle had irrevocably turned against Italy. But how she went down fighting to the last is one of the greatest though unknown sagas in human history. </p>