SOURCE: A review of Benito Mussolini: Memoirs 1942-1943, in The English Historical Review, Vol. LXVI, No. 260, July, 1951, p. 454.

In the following review of Benito Mussolini: Memoirs 1942-1943, the anonymous critic considers the memoirs biographically and politically significant but otherwise lacking in substance.

Benito Mussolini: Memoirs 1942-1943 consists of twenty-one articles written by Mussolini in the spring and early summer of 1944, and published, anonymously in the first instance, between 25 June and 18 July 1944 in the Corriere della Sera. They were republished hastily, with many signs of hurried editing, on 9 August 1944, as a small booklet, with the author's name prominently displayed; a second and much more handsome edition, with two further chapters and some documents, was published by the Milan firm of Mondadori in November. The title of the first edition, Il tempo del bastone e della carota (a reference to Mr. Churchill's statement in Washington on 26 May 1943 that it was...