Ebook: The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
- Tags: Aristocracy (Social class)--Ireland--Dublin, Assassins, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical, Catholic converts, Fascism--Italy--History--20th century, Families, Aristocracy (Social class), Attempted assassination, Fascism, Electronic books, Biographies, History, Gibson Violet, Mussolini Benito -- 1883-1945 -- Assassination attempt 1926 (April 7), Assassins -- Biography, Catholic converts -- Biography, Aristocracy (Social class) -- Ireland -- Dublin -- Biography, Ashbourne Edward Gibson -- Baron -- 1837-
- Year: 2011
- Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
- City: Dublin (Ireland);Ireland;Italy;Dublin
- Edition: First Picador edition
- Language: English
- epub
"At 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 7, 1926, a woman stepped out of the crowd on Rome's Campidoglio Square and shot Benito 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 backroom diplomacy, she vividly resurrects the life and times of a woman who sought to forestall catastrophe, whatever the cost."--Cover.
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