Hitler & Mussolini: The Secret Meetings

by Santi Corvaja, Robert L. Miller (Translator)

Few political associations have had as disastrous an outcome as the one forged between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. The Axis alliance in defeat ultimately destroyed its two founders and their regimes, as well as the lives of millions of people in Europe, Africa, and Asia in the process. Yet the deeper motivations that were the root cause of the alliance between Germany and Italy, with the added ingredient of Imperial Japan and the political and personal relationship between Hitler and Mussolini, are explained while many aspects remain strangely mysterious even to this day. This book offers a complete chronicle of the Axis alliance.

Genres: Germany, History, World War II, Italy

316 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2001

Reviews

[Steven Godin · Rating 4 out of 5]

A chilling but very informative look at the German–Italian axis which resulted in some of the most significant and dire meetings to have ever taken place in the 20th century.

Let's hope to God that in years to come there isn't a book called Putin and Jinping: The Secret Meetings

[Aleksandar · Rating 5 out of 5]

A detailed, well-researched and relatively unbiased account of the dynamic relationship between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany - a relationship fraught with egoism, political machinations and strategic mistakes, told over 17 meetings, only 4 of which took place before the outbreak of WW2. Definitely recommended.