MUSSOLINI

Here is a biography of Italy's Fascist dictator, Hitler's ally, and one of the great stock villains of the twentieth century. In crisp British tones, Nadia May delivers an exceptionally lucid oral interpretation of Ridley's snaky prose. Her exemplary reading is marred, though but no means spoiled, by inexplicable pauses and mouth noises. Y.R. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/MAY 00]