H. James Burgwyn (born 1936) is an American historian. He is a West Chester University

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. Bergwyn lives in

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Published works

* ''The Legend of the Mutilated Victory: Italy, the Great War, and the Paris Peace Conference, 1915–1919'', Greenwood Press (1993)
''Italian Foreign Policy in the Interwar Period: 1918-1940''
Praeger Publishers (1997) * ''Empire on the Adriatic: Mussolini's Conquest of Yugoslavia 1941–1943'', Enigma Books (2005) * ''Mussolini Warlord: Failed Dreams of Empire, 1940-1943'', Enigma Books (2013), * ''Mussolini and the Salò Republic, 1943 - 1945: The Failure of a Puppet Regime'', Palgrave MacMillan (2018),

References

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