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Claretta - Mussolini's Last Lover (Hardcover)
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Claretta - Mussolini's Last Lover (Hardcover)
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You Save R167 (23%)
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A master historian illuminates the tumultuous relationship of
Mussolini and his young lover Claretta Petacci, "One of the finest
historians of modern Italy, Bosworth has written both a love story,
full of passion and jealousy, and a vivid portrait of Italy under a
man who dreamt of recreating the Roman empire."-Caroline Moorehead,
Financial Times Few deaths are as gruesome and infamous as those of
Benito Mussolini, Italy's fascist dictator, and Claretta (or Clara)
Petacci, his much-younger lover. Shot dead by Italian partisans
after attempting to flee the country in 1945, the couple's bodies
were then hanged upside down in Milan's main square in ignominious
public display. This provocative book is the first to mine Clara's
extensive diaries, family correspondence, and other sources that
have only recently become available to discover how the last in
Mussolini's long line of lovers became his intimate and how she
came to her violent fate at his side. R. J. B. Bosworth explores
the social climbing of Claretta's family, her naive and
self-interested commitment to fascism, her diary's graphically
detailed accounts of sexual life with Mussolini, and much more.
Brimful of new and arresting information, the book sheds intimate
light not only on an ordinary-extraordinary woman living at the
heart of Italy's totalitarian fascist state but also on Mussolini
himself.
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