Mussolini - the rubbish war leader

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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It is compulsory or a man of John's age to do one episode on the Second World War. But fascists being useless is always worth revisiting - and the farcical and disastrous leadership of Benito Mussolini between 1940-45 is that rare thing in modern history - a bit of World War 2 that hasn't been done to death. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to We Are History with me, Angela Bath.
0:06.0	And me, John O'Farrell.
0:08.0	And this week, oh, it's a festive Corker this week, isn't it, John?
0:13.0	Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, we're in December.
0:16.0	We thought we'd make it really critical.
0:18.0	No, not at all.
0:19.0	No, this week, well, it's John who's chosen this week's topic.
0:23.1	Do you want to explain yourself? Well, as a male history nerd of a certain age, it's compulsory
0:28.1	that I do an episode about the Second World War. British white bloke, you know, in his,
0:33.2	you know, the later end of his life. You could be sure he knows slightly too much about Spitfires, D-Day, Hitler's invasion of Russia.
0:39.6	So, yeah.
0:40.7	That was, that's, it's in the contract, Angela.
0:43.4	Got to do it with a man of my age.
0:46.0	Your Second World War is going to come up slightly too often.
0:48.9	Of course.
0:49.8	All those, that youth of reading comics with Spitfires in and all the, yeah.
0:54.0	Valiant and take this hand.
0:56.0	Thwham.
0:57.1	I never read those, actually.
0:58.5	My friends did.
0:59.2	And I thought, I just know jokes in them.
1:01.0	I always read the Beano and Dandy, but there we go.
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