Paul Corner's Mussolini in Myth and Memory is a good book but far from a great one. While he writes with admirable lucidity, he also succumbs to the temptation of regurgitating modern memes without questioning them. Thus, laughably, does Donald Trump raise 'the spectre of a new Fascism'. Get past those deficiencies and what remains does a creditable job of deflating many persistent myths about Il Duce and his times