Benito Mussolini
Julius Caesar v. Benito Mussolini — An Excerpt from “Noteworthy Battles”
This is the first story in my upcoming collection Noteworthy Battles. Other stimulating showdowns include Ulysses S. Grant v. Robert E. Lee, Stalin v. Hitler, John F. Kennedy v. Lyndon Johnson, Hillary Clinton v. Monica Lewinsky, Ernest Hemingway v. F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many others. Noteworthy Battles will be published in the spring of 2026.…
Cable Wars
Ben loves war documentaries especially those with Alexander riding Bucephalus into hostile flanks, and Washington rousing frozen untrained troops, and photogenic Grant and Lee posing before ordering slaughter of several hundred thousand young men, and grainy Great War footage showing death in fetid trenches, and better films of proud performers Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Roosevelt, and…