Mussolini's ShadowAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 18 March 2014
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Married to Benito Mussoliniâ?Ts favorite daughter Edda, young Count Galeazzo Ciano (1903â?"1944) became il Duceâ?Ts confidant, emissary, and heir apparent in the years preceding World War II. Appointed foreign minister in 1936, Ciano played a central role in the Axis partnership negotiations with Hitler and von Ribbentrop and masterminded Italyâ?Ts invasions of Albania and Greece. But Ciano came to disagree with his father-in-law over Italyâ?Ts partnership with Germany, and he joined with other dissident Fascists plotting to remove Mussolini from office. Ciano was found guilty of treason, and despite desperate attempts to trade his sensational diaries for his life, he was shot. This is the first biography of Ciano in English, and it is based in part on those diaries, smuggled by Edda out of the country in her own dramatic escape. Mussoliniâ?Ts Shadow peels away much of the mystery of the Fascist era, provides an eye-opening account of the ruling figures of Germany and Italy, and offers a close-up view of the daily workings of Mussoliniâ?Ts regime. Count Cianoâ?Ts story is that of a highly intelligent manâ?"but one also frivolous, arrogant, and overbearingâ?"whose short life was characterized by espionage, intrigue, sexual scandal, assassination, and the abuse of power. As a leading player in Italyâ?Ts alliance with Germany, Ciano gambled with his own fate and with the fate of his country.
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