Blood Alone: A Collection of Speeches from 1918-1945

Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 1883 - 28 April 1945) was an Italian politician who founded and led the Fascist movement with the creation of the National Fascist Party in 1921. Mussolini monopolized on discontent in the Liberal establishment and fears of a Socialist takeover to rise to power in a coup d’etat known as the March on Rome in 1922 where he was appointed Prime Minister by King Vittorio Emanuele III. He ruled from 1922 until 1943 when Italy broke into a civil war, resulting in him leading the Italian Social Republic up to its defeat in 1945 and his subsequent execution at the end of the civil war and end of World War II.

Blood Alone is a collection of speeches made by Italian leader Benito Mussolini throughout his political career, starting from the end of the Great World War, through the Biennio Rosso (Red Years), and to his rise of power as Il Duce (the Leader) of the Kingdom of Italy until the Italian Civil War, and his later death.

The text of this novel is translated from speeches that Mussolini made through his career from 1918-1945 in Italian, to English. The translator of this novel has wished to remain anonymous.