Summary: <p>Some 1500 years after Alaric led the Visigoths in the sacking of Rome, the eternal city was braced for another invasion. There was talk of as many as a million supporters of fascist politician Benito Mussolini, seizing power by force. What followed was simultaneously anti climactic and yet profoundly significant. In this episode I recount the 1922 March on Rome.</p> <p>Music from <a href="https://pixabay.com/music/search/dramatic/?order=None" target="_blank">Pixabay</a></p> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/daniel-mainwaring5/message
