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7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises her old revolver and fires at the Italian head of state, the darling of Europe’s ruling class. The bullet narrowly misses the dictator’s bald head, hitting him in the nose. Of all his would-be assassins, she came closest to changing the course of history. What brought her to this moment? She was the daughter of an Anglo-Irish lord, had once consorted with royalty and the peerage. Yet terrible unhappiness lurked beneath that glittering surface. She loved Italy and when Mussolini’s thugs took it into the moral cesspit of Fascism, she felt she had to act. She paid for it for the rest of her life, confined to a lunatic asylum, like other difficult women of her class. Frances Stonor Saunders’ moving and compulsively readable book rescues this gentle, driven woman from a silent void and restores her dignity and purpose
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'A completely fascinating and disturbing story written with consummate elegance and unsettling power. A forgotten corner of 20th-century history brilliantly revealed to us.' --William Boyd
'Gibson has languished amid the footnotes to history, but in Saunders she's found a skilful, ardent champion. ... a consistently entertaining work that's part biography, part anecdotal social commentary and part political analysis that cast an appraising eye on the way British politicians got it so incredibly wrong in the early 20th century ... Chatty, intelligent and frequently surprising, The Woman Who Shot Mussolini is that wonderful thing: history delivered with the breathtaking pace of a novel.' --Lee Randall, Scotsman
'In pages of crisp, limpid prose, Saunders brilliantly captures the Irishwoman's spirit and what she might have been. The Woman Who Shot Mussolini is a book of commemoration as well as a documentary, and one of the finest studies of Italian fascism I have read.' --Ian Thomson, Observer
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The Woman Who Shot Mussolini by Frances Stonor Saunders is a moving story of a woman forgotten by history, from the bestselling author of Hawkswood.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 057123979X
- ISBN 13 9780571239795
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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