Download or read book Fascism, Aviation and Mythical Modernity written by Fernando Esposito and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying and the pilot were significant metaphors of fascism's mythical modernity. Fernando Esposito traces the changing meanings of these highly charged symbols from the air show in Brescia, to the sky above the trenches of the First World War to the violent ideological clashes of the interwar period.