THE BERLUSCONI YEARS
Opening quotation to set the scene
Berlusconi:
.......the Early Years
.......and the Mafia / P2
.......the very oddball (and football!)
........the politician
........brought to account (just about)
Italy's humiliation and Democracy's erosion
There is a plethora of books on Berlusconi.
I shall largely be using Silvio Berlusconi's Italy by Vittorio Vandelli
Democracy finally arrived in Germany in the wake of a Civil War that immediately followed the breakdown after World War One. It arrived in the form of The Weimar Republic (named after the city where
Kaiser Wilhelm II C.Clarke The Sleepwalkers (road to war) C.Clarke Ring of Steel (Germany and Austria at war) A.Watson The Three Emperors M.Carter Berlin (in 20th Century) S.M
Once Bismarck had been dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1890, Germany's Foreign Policy took a distinct turn to what, in the end, became the policy of Weltpolitik, that is world politics; the attempt