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Moorehead, Caroline.
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Ciano, Edda Mussolini, Contessa.
Ciano, Edda Mussolini, Contessa -- Family
Ciano, Edda Mussolini, Contessa -- Marriage
Statesmen's spouses -- Italy -- Biography.
Italy -- Politics and government -- 1922-1945.
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Moorehead, Caroline.
Ciano, Edda Mussolini, Contessa.
Ciano, Edda Mussolini, Contessa -- Family
Ciano, Edda Mussolini, Contessa -- Marriage
Statesmen's spouses -- Italy -- Biography.
Italy -- Politics and government -- 1922-1945.
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Mussolini's daughter : the most dangerous woman in Europe / Caroline Moorehead.
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Moorehead, Caroline.
Random House Canada, 2022.
Call #:
945
.091092
C556m
Subjects
Ciano, Edda Mussolini, Contessa.
Ciano, Edda Mussolini, Contessa -- Family
Ciano, Edda Mussolini, Contessa -- Marriage
Statesmen's spouses -- Italy -- Biography.
Italy -- Politics and government -- 1922-1945.
ISBN:
9780735279742 (pbk)
Description:
xix, 405 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite child: spoiled and venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ultimately strong and loyal. For much of the twenty-year period of Fascist rule, she was her father's closest confidante. In 1930, at the age of nineteen, Edda married Count Galeazzo Ciano, who would become the youngest Foreign Secretary in Italian history. Acting as envoy to both Germany and Britain, Edda played a part in steering Italy to join forces with Hitler. During this time, the Cianos became the most celebrated and glamorous couple in elegant, vulgar Roman fascist society. Their fortunes turned in 1943, when Ciano voted against Mussolini in a plot to bring him down, and his father-in-law did not forgive him. Edda's dramatic story includes hidden diaries, her father's downfall and her husband's execution, and an escape into Switzerland followed by a period in exile. Moorehead draws a portrait of a complicated, bold, and determined woman -- one who emerges not just as a witness but as a key player in some of the twentieth century's defining moments. And we see Fascist Italy with all its glamour, decadence and political intrigue, and the turbulence before its violent end."--Publisher.
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