Mutilated victory

Italy had been on the winning side, but despite more than a million people killed or wounded, the territorial gains promised by Italy's allies had not materialised.

They started to call it la vittoria mutilata, the partial victory.

Mussolini seized power on October 28, 1922 through the March on Rome.

When 30,000 blackshirts intimidated Italy's king into appointing Mussolini prime minister.