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Mussolini's daughter the most dangerous woman in Europe

"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...

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Main Author: Moorehead, Caroline (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]
Edition:First U.S. edition.
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.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • La cavallina matta
  • A country ungoverned and ungovernable
  • A path full of traps
  • The tentacles of an octopus
  • The virago
  • La prima signora di Shanghai
  • The cult of the Duce
  • At Ciano's court
  • Lionesses without manes
  • The most influential woman in Europe
  • The Fascists at play
  • Death comes to Rome
  • Wavering
  • Waiting
  • Dancing from one party to the next
  • Plotting
  • Death walks on the roof
  • What have we become?
  • Doing one's duty
  • A gangster's moll on the run
  • Edda is willing
  • Settling scores
  • L'Aquilaccia.

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