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The Sand Against the Wind - Softcover

Felice Maffey, Riccardo Pietro

 
9780595011216: The Sand Against the Wind
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0595011217 ISBN 13: 9780595011216
Publisher: iUniverse, 2000

Synopsis

Book Description:Churchill called it a Renaissance tragedy. Indeed, before Count Ciano's execution by Mussolini, his father-in-law, now head of the Italian Social Republic, only two women attempted his rescue. His wife, Edda, who defied her father, and a female Nazi secret agent, Frau Betz, who loved him.Between history and fiction, in the struggle for Ciano's life and his diaries, an indictment of Hitler and Ribbentrop's treacheries, is also the son of a cockney musician and a Roman noblewoman. Carlo Rufus Williams, a cavalry major, a letterato, and a broadcaster in civilian life, joins the Resistance after King Victor Emmanuel III and the Italian warlords abandon Rome to the brutality of the German forces. With sensuous, leftist, aristocratic Mirta della Rovere, he fights back until a street attack provokes a Nazi massacre in reprisal.

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About the Author

Riccardo Maffey has been a London correspondent with several Italian newspapers. He was economics editor with the USIS in Rome, and worked as a commentator, presenter and interviewer for the BBC Italian Section and the Italian Swiss Radio from London, Rome, Dublin, Belfast, and the US.

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Publisher
iUniverse
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0595011217
ISBN 13 
9780595011216
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
342