Mussolini: An Intimate Biography by His Widow, Rachele Mussolini

By Rachele Mussolini

Book Overview

Dust jacket notes: "Now eighty-four, Rachele Mussolini has lost none of the good sense and sharp insight and blunt speech that first recommended this farmer's daughter to the young political agitator... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688002668
• ISBN13: 9780688002664
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Morrow
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Two sides to every story.....

What a strange book this is, an odd mixture of denial and passion. It's often hilarious in it's outrageous, over the top, retelling of the heyday of Il Duce. But the glossing over of the realties of Fascism and Mussolini's pact with Hitler can get very sickening. In the end Signora Mussolini claims that "peace prevails in her heart", but somehow, in her narcissism, she has forgotten all the people that suffered besides Duce and her.