The Woman Who Shot Mussolini - Couverture rigide

Saunders, Frances Stonor

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0805091211 ISBN 13 : 9780805091212

Editeur : Metropolitan Books, 2010

Synopsis

Book by Stonor Saunders Frances

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'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

'An astonishing audacious book -- a marvellous account of a woman who both felt and challenged the madness of her age.' --Declan Kiberd

'A deeply felt account of an undoubtedly tragic life.' --John Carey

'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

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 was a serious-minded young woman in an age when girls were meant to marry well and think little. Her spiritual quest took her to a kind of left-wing Catholicism, sympathy for Irish nationalism and a passionate love for Italy. 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Metropolitan Books
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0805091211
• ISBN 13: 9780805091212
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 380
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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