The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571239795 (057123979X)
Publish date: 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Sinead Cusack reads from Frances Stonor Saunders' account of the troubled life of Violet Gibson, the daughter of an Anglo-Irish lord, who attempted to assassinate Mussolini in Rome in 1926. On Wednesday 7th April 1926, in front of a crowd of cheering Fascist supporters, Benito Mussolini is shot at c...