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The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

By Frances Stonor , Ashbourne , Edward Gibson;Gibson , Violet;Mussolini , Benito;Saunders

Book information

Publisher
Henry Holt and Co.;Picador
Year
2011
ISBN
9781429935081, 9780805091212, 1429935081
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1555955 bytes)
Edition
First Picador edition
Pages
(xii, 381 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1837--- 1883-1945 -- Assassination attempt-- Baron1926 (April 7);Assassins -- Biography;Catholic conAristocracy (Social class)--Ireland--Dublin;AssassBenitoEdward GibsonViolet;Mussolini

Description

"At 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 7, 1926, a woman stepped out of the crowd on Rome's Campidoglio Square and shot Benito Mussolini at point-blank range. He escaped virtually unscathed. Violet Gibson, who expected to be thanked for her action, was arrested, labeled a 'crazy Irish spinster' and a 'half-mad mystic'--and promptly forgotten. Now, in an elegant work of reconstruction, Frances Stonor Saunders retrieves this remarkable figure from the lost historical record. In a grand, tragic narrative, full of suspense and mystery, conspiracy and backroom diplomacy, she vividly resurrects the life and times of a woman who sought to forestall catastrophe, whatever the cost."--Cover.

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