Frances Stonor Saunders
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, the Honourable Violet Gibson raised her revolver and fired at the Italian head of state. The bullet narrowly missed the dictator’s bald head, hitting him in the nose. Of all his would-be assassins, she came closest to changing the course of history. But unlike Hitler’s attempted assassins, Violet never received the smallest recognition for her gesture. She was merely a ‘mad woman’, judged by a world that thought Mussolini perfectly sane. The brilliant historian Frances Stonor Saunders tells this unknown yet utterly riveting story.
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