Mussolini S Daughter

Author : Caroline Moorehead
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062967266

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Mussolini's Daughter by Caroline Moorehead Pdf

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 : Caroline Moorehead
Publisher : Chatto & Windus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1784743240

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Edda Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead Pdf

Author : Vittorio Mussolini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015028981440

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Mussolini - the Tragic Women in His Life by Vittorio Mussolini Pdf

Author : Margherita Sarfatti
Publisher : Enigma Books
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781936274390

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My Fault by Margherita Sarfatti Pdf

Mussolini's Jewish mistress confesses: How she educated a rough uncultured man to become a politician and consolidated the fascist regime.

Author : Romano Mussolini
Publisher : Kales Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0967007682

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My Father Il Duce by Romano Mussolini Pdf

"Breaking a lifelong silence about his father "before it was too late," Romano Mussolini opens the floodgates to reveal the family life of one of World War II's seminal figures, Benito Mussolini. In this historical, revisionist memoir, Romano offers a son's unique perspective through never-before-published revelations steeped in intimate details of Mussolini's many adulteries; his sense of supremacy and destiny for greatness; his alliance with Hitler; and finally, his detachment from reality. Mussolini is further humanized as a caring family man who encouraged education and wept at his daughter's wedding."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Tilar J. Mazzeo
Publisher : Scribe Publications
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781922586575

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Sisters in Resistance by Tilar J. Mazzeo Pdf

The extraordinary true story of how three women — a fascist’s daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite — raced against Hitler’s SS to get key evidence into the hands of the Allies. In 1943, Edda Mussolini, daughter of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, gave her father and Hitler an extraordinary ultimatum: release her husband, Italy’s former foreign minister, Galeazzo Ciano, from prison, or risk her leaking her husband’s diaries to the press. Knowing the diaries would expose Nazi lies and create a foundation for war crimes prosecutions, Hitler and Mussolini vowed to do everything in their power to see the diaries destroyed — even if it meant killing Mussolini’s daughter. To do this, they ordered Hilde Beetz, a German spy, to seduce Ciano in prison in order to learn the diaries’ location. However, the seducer became the seduced, joining forces with Edda to try to save Ciano from execution. When this failed, Edda fled, with Hilde’s daring assistance, to keep Ciano’s final wish: to see the diaries published for use by the Allies. Upon learning of Edda’s escape, the head of United States intelligence, Alan Dulles, sent in socialite Frances de Chollet, assigned by chance to a mission that would change her life. Her task was to find Edda, gain her trust, and, crucially, hand the diaries over to the Americans. Against all expectations, what developed was a rich and humanising friendship between the two women. Staying one step ahead of the Gestapo agents who were hunting Edda, together they succeeded in preserving one of the most important historic documents of World War II. Containing all the detailed twists and turns of a spy thriller, this is the story of three women, each faced with unbearable pressures and weighty moral questions, whose lives were drawn together in one of the most unlikely rescues of World War II.

Author : Edda Mussolini Ciano (Contessa.)
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Italy
ISBN : 0688030998

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My Truth by Edda Mussolini Ciano (Contessa.) Pdf

Author : Ray Moseley
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300079176

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Mussolini's Shadow by Ray Moseley Pdf

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Author : A. Haro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0645275271

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Giovanna by A. Haro Pdf

Giovanna, a loyal and enthusiastic young fascist in Mussolini's Italy, is about to have her world smashed and broken beyond all recognition by WW11.Born into a loving family in northern Italy, Giovanna's early life was happy and carefree. Her father was a skilled cabinetmaker, and her mother was a talented teacher. Giovanna is neither interested nor aware of the political machinations of her country. All that matters to her is family, friends and her social life, and everything in that world looks perfect.This is an authentic account of a teenager who lived in Italy during WW11. We see, through the eyes of Giovanna, the struggle of ordinary Italians under the oppressive rule of Mussolini's fascist Italy and how he led them all into the chaos and destruction of war to feed his own megalomania and to achieve his ambition of becoming a great and revered leader of a new roman empire.

Author : Caroline Moorehead
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735279759

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Mussolini's Daughter by Caroline Moorehead Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The bestselling author of A Train in Winter returns with the definitive story of Mussolini’s daughter, Edda, one of the most influential women in 1930s Italy, whose life had more twists and turns than a spy novel. 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.

Author : Rachele Mussolini,Albert Zarca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015013442093

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Mussolini: an Intimate Biography by Rachele Mussolini,Albert Zarca Pdf

Om den italienske diktator fortalt af hans hustru

Author : Jay Nordlinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Children of criminals
ISBN : 1594038996

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Children of Monsters by Jay Nordlinger Pdf

"Some years ago, the author, Jay Nordlinger, was in Albania. He was there to give a talk under State Department auspices. Albania was about ten years beyond the collapse of Communism. For almost 40 years, the country had been ruled by one of the most brutal dictators in history: Enver Hoxha. Nordlinger wondered whether this dictator had had children. He had indeed: three of them. And they were still in Albania, with their 3 million fellow citizens. Nordlinger wondered, "What are the lives of the Hoxha kids like? What must it be like to be the son or daughter of a monstrous dictator? What must it be like to bear a name synonymous with oppression, terror, and evil?" In this book, Nordlinger surveys 20 dictators in all. They are the worst of the worst: Stalin, Mao, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, and so on. The book is not about them, really, though of course they figure in it. It's about their children. Some of them are absolute loyalists. They admire, revere, or worship their father. Some of them actually succeed their father as dictator-as in North Korea, Syria, and Haiti. Some of them have doubts. A couple of them become full-blown dissenters, even defectors. A few of the daughters have the experience of having their husband killed by their father. Most of these children are rocked by exile, prison, and the like. Obviously, the children have some things in common. But they are also individuals, making of life what they can. The main thing they have in common is this: They have been dealt a very, very unusual hand. What would you do, if you were the offspring of an infamous dictator, who lords it over your country? Chances are, you'll never have to find out! But some people have-and this book investigates those lucky, or unlucky, few"--

Author : Galeazzo Ciano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0997210044

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Diary 1937-1943 by Galeazzo Ciano Pdf

The most famous diary by the Italian Foreign Minister and son-in-law of Mussolini, leading to his death by firing squad.

Author : Luciana Castellina
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781682869

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Discovery of the World by Luciana Castellina Pdf

Luciana Castellina is one of Italy’s most prominent left intellectuals and a cofounder of the newspaper il manifesto. In this coming-of agememoir, based on her diaries, she recounts her political awakening as a teenage girl in Fascist Italy—where she used to play tennis with Mussolini’s daughter—and the subsequent downfall of the regime. Discovery of the World is about war, anti-Semitism, anti-fascism, resistance, the belief in social justice, the craving for experience, travel, political rallies, cinema, French intellectuals and FIAT workers, international diplomacy and friendship. All this is built on an intricate web made of reason and affection, of rational questioning and ironic self-narration as well as of profound nostalgia, disappointment and discovery.

Author : Ray Moseley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300209568

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Mussolini's Shadow: The Double Life of Count Galeazzo Ciano by Ray Moseley Pdf

Married to Benito Mussolini's favourite daughter Edda, young Count Galeazzo Ciano (1903-44) became il Duce's confidant, emissary, and heir apparent in the years preceding the Second World War. Appointed foreign minister in 1936, Ciano played a central role in the Axis partnership negotiations with Hitler and von Ribbentrop and masterminded Italy's invasions of Albania and Greece. But Ciano came to disagree with his father-in-law over Italy's partnership with Germany, and he joined with other dissident Fascists plotting to remove Mussolini from office. Ciano was found guilty of treason and, despite desperate attempts to trade his sensational diaries for his life, was shot. This is the first biography of Ciano in English, and it is based in part on those diaries, smuggled by Edda out of the country in her own dramatic escape. 'Mussolini's Shadow' peels away much of the mystery of the Fascist era, provides an eye-opening account of the ruling figures of Germany and Italy, and offers a close-up view of the daily workings of the Mussolini regime. Count Ciano's story is that of a highly intelligent man - but one also frivolous, arrogant and overbearing - whose short life was characterised by espionage, intrigue, sexual scandal, assassination, and the abuse of power. As a leading player in Italy's alliance with Germany, Ciano gambled disastrously with his own fate and with that of his country. Ray Moseley is chief European correspondent for the 'Chicago Tribune'. He has lived in Europe for many years, including five years in Rome, and was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in international reporting in 1981.