Edda Mussolini

Author : Caroline Moorehead
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062967274
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mussolini's Daughter written by Caroline Moorehead and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Resistance Quartet returns with the incredible story of Mussolini’s daughter, Edda, one of the most influential women in 1930s Italy and a powerful proponent of the fascist movement. Edda Mussolini was the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s oldest and favorite child. At 19, she was married to Count Galleazzo Ciano, Il Duce’s Minister for Foreign Affairs during the 1930s, the most turbulent decade in Italy’s fascist history. In the years preceding World War II, Edda ruled over Italy’s aristocratic families and the cultured and middle classes while selling Fascism on the international stage. How a young woman wielded such control is the heart of Caroline Moore’s fascinating history. The issues that emerge reveal not only a great deal about the power of fascism, but also the ease with which dictatorship so easily took hold in a country weakened by war and a continent mired in chaos and desperate for peace. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, some newly released, along with memoirs and personal papers, Mussolini’s Daughter paints a portrait of a woman in her twenties whose sheer force of character and ruthless narcissism helped impose a brutal and vulgar movement on a pliable and complicit society. Yet as Moorehead shows, not even Edda’s colossal willpower, her scheming, nor her father’s avowed love could save her husband from Mussolini’s brutal vengeance. As she did in her Resistance Quartet, Moorehead delves deep into the past, exploring what fascism felt like to those living under it, how it blossomed and grew, and how fascists and aristocrats joined forces to pursue ten years of extravagance, amorality, and excessive luxury—greed, excess, and ambition that set the world on fire. The result is a powerful portrait of a young woman who played a key role in one of the most terrifying and violent periods in human history.

Author : Edda Mussolini Ciano (Contessa.)
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 : 9780688030995
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Truth written by Edda Mussolini Ciano (Contessa.) and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Caroline Moorehead
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473572118
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edda Mussolini written by Caroline Moorehead and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's favourite daughter, and a heart-stopping account of the unravelling of the Fascist dream in Italy 'Engrossing... Moorehead has a spirited turn of phrase, a keen eye for the telling detail and pungent quote, and a gift for marshaling complex material' Jenny Uglow, New York Times Book Review Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite daughter: spoilt, venal and uneducated but also clever, brave, and ultimately loyal. She was her father's confidante during the 20 years of Fascist rule and married Foreign Secretary Galeazzo Ciano, making them the most celebrated couple in Roman fascist society. Their fortunes turned in 1943, when Ciano voted against Mussolini in a plot to bring him down. In a dramatic story that takes in hidden diaries, her father's fall and her husband's execution, we come to know a complicated, bold and determined woman who emerges not just as a witness but as a key player in some of the twentieth century's defining moments. 'Vividly told, engrossing history' CLARE MULLEY, author of The Women Who Flew for Hitler 'Precise, empathic . . . a profoundly satisfying, albeit wistful, read and . . . a worryingly relevant one' GUARDIAN

Author : Tilar J. Mazzeo
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 153873527X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sisters in Resistance written by Tilar J. Mazzeo and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a tale as twisted as any spy thriller, discover how three women delivered critical evidence of Axis war crimes to Allied forces during World War II: !--StartFragment --“A tantalizingly novelistic history lesson" (Kirkus).!--EndFragment -- In 1944, news of secret diaries kept by Italy's Foreign Minister, Galeazzo Ciano, had permeated public consciousness. What wasn't reported, however, was how three women—a Fascist's daughter, a German spy, and an American banker’s wife—risked their lives to ensure the diaries would reach the Allies, who would later use them as evidence against the Nazis at Nuremberg. In 1944, Benito Mussolini's daughter, Edda, gave Hitler and her father an ultimatum: release her husband, Galeazzo Ciano, from prison, or risk her leaking her husband's journals to the press. To avoid the peril of exposing Nazi lies, Hitler and Mussolini hunted for the diaries for months, determined to destroy them. Hilde Beetz, a German spy, was deployed to seduce Ciano to learn the diaries' location and take them from Edda. As the seducer became the seduced, Hilde converted as a double agent, joining forces with Edda to save Ciano from execution. When this failed, Edda fled to Switzerland with Hilde’s daring assistance to keep Ciano's final wish: to see the diaries published for use by the Allies. When American spymaster Allen Dulles learned of Edda's escape, he sent in Frances De Chollet, an “accidental” spy, telling her to find Edda, gain her trust, and, crucially, hand the diaries over to the Americans. Together, they succeeded in preserving one of the most important documents of WWII. Drawing from in‑depth research and first-person interviews with people who witnessed these events, Mazzeo gives readers a riveting look into this little‑known moment in history and shows how, without Edda, Hilde, and Frances's involvement, certain convictions at Nuremberg would never have been possible. Includes a Reading Group Guide.

Author : Margherita Sarfatti
Publisher : Enigma Books
ISBN 13 : 1936274396
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Fault written by Margherita Sarfatti and published by Enigma Books. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mussolini's Jewish mistress confesses: How she educated a rough uncultured man to become a politician and consolidated the fascist regime.

Author : Ray Moseley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300079173
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mussolini's Shadow written by Ray Moseley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dotyczy m. in. Polski.

Author : Rupert Colley
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007554109
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mussolini: History in an Hour written by Rupert Colley and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.

Author : Vittorio Mussolini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mussolini: the Tragic Women in His Life written by Vittorio Mussolini and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edda Negri Mussolini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780987318183
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in the Mussolini House written by Edda Negri Mussolini and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107169771
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jazz Italian Style written by Anna Harwell Celenza and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the arrival of jazz in Italy, its reception and development, and how its distinct style influenced musicians in America.