The Anatomy of Fascism-Fast Shipping

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What is fascism? By focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said, the esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question.

From the first violent uniformed bands beating up “enemies of the state,” throughMussolini’s rise to power, to Germany’s fascist radicalization in World War II, Paxtonshows clearly why fascists came to power in some countries and not others, and exploreswhether fascism could exist outside the early-twentieth-century European settingin which it emerged.

“A deeply intelligent and very readable book. . . . Historical analysis at its best.” –The Economist

The Anatomy of Fascism will have a lasting impact on our understandingof modern European history, just as Paxton’s classic
Vichy France redefined our visionof World War II. Based on a lifetime of research, this compelling and important booktransforms our knowledge of fascism–“the major political innovation of the twentiethcentury, and the source of much of its pain.”