A series of perspectives on the everyday experience of Europeans in the 'age of fascism'.

List of contributors; Preface; Introduction: community, authority and resistance to fascism Tim Kirk and Anthony McElligott; 1. The German revolution defeated and fascism deferred: the serviceman's revolt and social democracy at the end of the First World War, 1918-20 Nick Howard; 2. Dangerous communities and conservative authority: the judiciary, Nazis and rough people, 1932-3 Anthony McElligott; 3. The anti-fascist movement in south-east Lancashire, 1933-40: the divergent experiences of Manchester and Nelson Neil Barrett; 4. Spain 1936. Resistance and revolution: the flaws in the front Helen Graham; 5. The Blueshirts in the Irish Free State, 1932-5: the nature of socialist republican and governmental opposition Mike Cronin; 6. Town councils of the Nord and Pas-de-Calais region: local power, French power, German power Yves Le Maner; 7. Structures of authority in the Greek resistance, 1941-4 Mark Mazower; 8. Nazi Austria: the limits of dissent Tim Kirk; 9. 'Homosexual' men in Vienna, 1938 Hannes Sulzenbacher; 10. 'The years of consent'? Popular attitudes and forms of resistance to Fascism in Italy, 1925-40 Philip Morgan; 11. Saints and heroines: rewriting the history of Italian women in the Resistance Perry R. Wilson; Notes; Index.