World fascism : a historical encyclopedia

"From the followers of Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Arab leader who met with Adolph Hitler in November 1942, to Balkan Muslim volunteers for the Waffen SS during World War II, fascism's heady brew of extreme nationalism and racism has seduced peoples across all races, religions, and classes. Now widely reviled, fascism became the dominant political force in Western Europe throughout the 1930s and into the 1940s. How did civilized nations like Italy, Germany, Austria, and others succumb to an ideology now regarded by the political mainstream as barbarous and beyond the pale? 'World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia' covers all the key personalities and movements throughout the history of fascism and brings to light some of the ideology's lesser known aspects, from Hindu extremists in Inda to the pro-Fascist sympathies of certain members of the English aristocracy."--Publisher description (retrieved from Library of Congress catalog record). Includes bibliographical references and index. 2 volumes : illustrations ; 29 cm