A gripping account of the life and fate of the Woman who almost assassinated Benito Mussolini.
Frances Stonor Saunders\' moving and compulsively readable book rescues this gentle, driven Woman from a silent void and restores her dignity and purpose..
She paid for it for the rest of her life, confined to a lunatic asylum, like other difficult women of her class.
She loved Italy and when Mussolini\'s thugs took it into the moral cesspit of Fascism, she felt she had to act.
Yet terrible unhappiness lurked beneath that glittering surface.
What brought her to this moment? The daughter of an Anglo-Irish lord, she had once consorted with royalty and the peerage.
Of all his would-be assassins, she came closest to changing the course of history.
The bullet narrowly misses the dictator\'s bald head, hitting him in the nose. 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, Benito Mussolini - the darling of Europe\'s ruling class.
A gripping account of the life and fate of the Woman who almost assassinated Benito Mussolini
