The Woman Who Shot Mussolini: A Biography

by Stonor Saunders, Frances
ISBN: 9780312681128
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At 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 7, 1926, a woman stepped out of the crowd on Rome's Campidoglio Square and shot 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 back-room diplomacy, she vividly resurrects the life and times of a woman who sought to forestall catastrophe, whatever the cost.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Stonor Saunders, Frances
  • ISBN: 9780312681128
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.28 x 1.08
  • Number Of Pages: 400
  • Publication Year: 2011
Language: English