Caroline Moorehead: Mussolini’s Dangerous Daughter
Where did power really lie in Fascist Italy? Not just with Benito Mussolini, according to Caroline Moorehead, but also with his favourite daughter. In the engrossing Edda Mussolini Moorehead examines the rise and fall of a woman whose husband, Galeazzo Ciano, was Foreign Minister before he plotted to bring Mussolini down.The celebrated biographer joins Jamie Jauncey to discuss this fascinating figure.
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