Giampiero, on the other hand, has successfully evaded my attempts to learn about him. Though the name alone denotes an Italian, I can't seem to find much else about this individual. What I know, is that the factual and insightful references made within his book lead me to believe that this man either lived during Mussolini, or spent much time with people who did. He takes peoples experiences in to account in his writing, though he doesn't tell their stories. Beyond that I know that he too did research within the state archives in Italy. For some of their information is quite the same. The main difference between the two authors is their focuses. Adrian seems to emphasize out Mussolini's shortcomings and spends less time acknowledging the few good things he did do for Italy. Giampiero seems to be more of a middleman. He acknowledges Mussolini's overall failure as a leader, but he gives credence to the fact that he did drag Italy in to the twentieth century. A few of the good things he did were, he ended the cold war with the catholic church, by the Lateran Treaty, it gave the Catholic Church the Vatican as a sovereign state, he also created a land reclamation project which improved Italy's roads and railways. This is why I believe that Giampiero is Italian and a little bias. He wants to point out the good it brought the country even though he knows that the Mussolini regime was pretty much an exercise in the denial of freedoms for the Italian people. Although there are many ways to interpret history and historical facts these authors are along the same lines when they write of Mussolini and the Fascist movement.
It is obvious that no matter how objective a person tries to be when reporting something of a factual basis, they can never be totally impartial. Our own educations, family, friends and institutions cloud our impartiality. That is evident when reading these two books. A view from an American and a view from and Italian, the American holds back nothing and the Italian tries to soften the blows, after all it is his country's history we are talking about.