288pp. Black cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Rubbed spine ends, cloth torn. Wear to boards. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges starting to tan and fox. Free endpapers starting to tan. Pages ageing. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. The author travelled through pre-war Europe and examined the rise of Fascism, considering its growth in Italy, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Austria; examining what happens when fascism takes hold; how people are controlled not only by terror and tyranny, but also by misery and starvation, and the punishments inflicted on those who did not agree with the new order.