Drafting Il Duce
Mark Bryant profiles the brilliant wartime cartoonist who chronicled the actions of Italy’s Fascist leader.
The year 2009 marked three notable anniversaries in the life of Benito Mussolini. In 1919 he founded the Fasci di Combattimento – the original Fascist movement. Twenty years later, as Italy’s leader (Il Duce), he annexed Albania (his first major European conquest) and signed the Pact of Steel with Hitler’s Germany.
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