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The Woman Who Shot Mussolini Hardcover - 2010

by Stonor Saunders, Frances


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The astonishing untold story of a woman who tried to stop the rise of Fascism and change the course of history

At 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 7, 1926, a woman stepped out of the crowd on Rome's Campidoglio Square. Less than a foot in front of her stood Benito Mussolini. As he raised his arm to give the Fascist salute, the woman raised hers and shot him at point-blank range. Mussolini escaped virtually unscathed, cheered on by practically the whole world. 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. She examines Gibson's aristocratic childhood in the Dublin elite, with its debutante balls and presentations at court; her engagement with the critical ideas of the era--pacifism, mysticism, and socialism; her completely overlooked role in the unfolding drama of Fascism and the cult of Mussolini; and her response to a new and dangerous age when anything seemed possible but everything was at stake.

In a grand tragic narrative, full of suspense and mystery, conspiracy and backroom diplomacy, Stonor Saunders vividly resurrects the life and times of a woman who sought to forestall catastrophe, whatever the cost.

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  • Title The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
  • Author Stonor Saunders, Frances
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 400
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Metropolitan Books, New York
  • Date 2010-03
  • ISBN 9780805091212

About the author

Frances Stonor Saunders is the author of T"he Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters," which was short-listed for the "Guardian" First Book Award, received the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Memorial Prize, and was translated into ten languages. Her writing has appeared in the "Los Angeles Times," as well as "The Guardian" and "The Independent." She lives in London.

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