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Fascination with the Persecutor: George L. Mosse and the Catastrophe of Modern Man By Emilio Gentile. Translated by John Tedeschi and Anne Tedeschi. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. Pp. 224. Cloth $39.95. ISBN: 978-0299334307.
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Fascination with the Persecutor: George L. Mosse and the Catastrophe of Modern Man By Emilio Gentile. Translated by John Tedeschi and Anne Tedeschi. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021. Pp. 224. Cloth $39.95. ISBN: 978-0299334307.
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