Brutal Friendship: Mussolini, Hitler and the Fall of Italian Fascism

Using source materials from summit conference records on the Axis side to private correspondence, police files and spy reports, Deakin writes a narrative history that reads like a psychological thriller, vividly detailing the intense relationship between the two notorious despots and its fatal consequences.

F.W. Deakin was born in 1913. He studied Modern history at Christ Church, Oxford. Through his long career he has a Fellow at Wadham College, and Warden at St Anthony's College, Oxford. In 1939 he joined up and was later seconded to special duties at the War Offfice. In 1943 he led the first British Military Lission to Tito, and in 1945 and 1946 was 1st Secretary at the Embassy in Belgrade. He holds the DSO, the Grosse Verdeinstkreuz, the Yugoslav Partisan Star (1st class), and is a member of the Russian Order of Valour and a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur.