Death of a Dictator : The Mysterious Execution of Benito Mussolini
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Overview
April 1945. On a quiet stretch of lakeside road, exhausted, abandoned, fleeing into the Alps as his empire collapses, Benito Mussolini is shot dead and then hung upside down with his 33-year-old mistress, Claretta. In the decades that follow, arguments rage about the execution. What plans did the fascist dictator have for his escape? What happened to the secret documents and fortune in gold he was carrying? And of all the forces converging on that road--partisans, Communists, American agents, his own dwindling band of supporters--who was it who pulled the trigger? In his nonfiction debut, former Sunday Times literary editor Andrew Holgate picks through a mass of contradictory clues and arrives at a conclusion that will transform how we see one of the last great unsolved mysteries of the Second World War. Death of a Dictator is a true history about a figure who has never stayed dead and buried for long.
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- ISBN-13: 9781324096474
- ISBN-10: 1324096470
- Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
- Publish Date: May 2027
- Page Count: 288
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