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Book of the Week: FS Saunders - The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

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FS Saunders - The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

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Mussolini's heroic image enthused his supporters, but Violet Gibson felt differently.

The heroic legend of Mussolini enthused his supporters, but Violet Gibson came to feel differently. Read by Sinead Cusack.

Sinead Cusack reads from Frances Stonor Saunders' account of the troubled life of Violet Gibson, the daugher of an Anglo-Irish lord who attempted to assassinate Mussolini in Rome in 1926. 

Mussolini was a man with a passion for living dangerously - his battle scars and near misses testified to that - and it was the heroic legend that he stoked which so enthused his supporters. But Violet Gibson came to feel differently.

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Sinead Cusack reads Frances Stonor Saunders's account of troubled life of Violet Gibson

Sinead Cusack reads from Frances Stonor Saunders's account of troubled life of Violet Gibson, the daugher of an Anglo-Irish lord who attempted to assassinate Mussolini in Rome in 1926

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