Badly outdated on details (claims holodomor is not a genocide), insults every one who ever tried to write about fascism before doing the same things (e.g. claims that only looking at the leaders is misguided and spends not a paragraph on the followers), self contradictory (Franco "carefully avoided any hints of fascist trimmings" but Franco's regime fits the author's definition of fascism) and just plain wrong sometimes (saying that Germany was a recently industrialised in the 1920s)

Saved from one star because of the useful history and contrast of the rise and exercise of power of Italian and German fascism.