A Farewell to Arms, by Earnest Hemingway, is a great novel about the pains of life including the great sorrow that comes with loosing those you love. Frederic Henry, the protagonist of the story, is an American Lieutenant in the Italian Army during the First World War. This fact is significant in le...

The relationship between Tomas and Tereza is torn into emotional chaos so many times that a reader can easily begin to wonder if they really like one another or if they are just kind of riding it out together. After all the story is set in the middle of a political crisis, with the massive Soviet sh...

First of all, it should be mentioned that this novel is both a political and a philosophical novel, and the characters and the setting relates to what life was like in a post-WWII Soviet satellite nation. It was the Cold War period; and Prague, where the novel is set, had somehow avoided the terribl...

Mussolini and the intervention crisisBenito Mussolini was born in Predappio, near Forli, in Romagna, on July 29, 1883. Like his father, Benito became a fervent socialist. He qualified as an elementary schoolmaster in 1901. In 1902 he emigrated to Switzerland. Unable to find a permanent job there and...

What is Fascism? Fascism is a 20th century form of nationalistic, militaristic, totalitarian dictatorship that seeks to create a feasible society through strict regimentation of national and individual lives. Total subordination to the service of the state and unquestioning loyalty to its leader wou...