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Caroline Moorehead

Biography

Caroline Moorehead

Caroline Moorehead is the New York Times bestselling author of the Resistance Quartet, which includes A BOLD AND DANGEROUS FAMILY, VILLAGE OF SECRETS and A TRAIN IN WINTER, as well as HUMAN CARGO, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. An acclaimed biographer, she has written for the New York Review of Books, The Guardian and The Independent. She lives in London and Italy.

Caroline Moorehead

Books by Caroline Moorehead

Mussolini's Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
by Caroline Moorehead - Biography, History, Nonfiction

Edda Mussolini was the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s oldest and favorite child. At 19, she was married to Count Galleazzo Ciano, Il Duce’s Minister for Foreign Affairs during the 1930s, the most turbulent decade in Italy’s fascist history. In the years preceding World War II, Edda ruled over Italy’s aristocratic families and the cultured and middle classes while selling fascism on the international stage. How a young woman wielded such control is the heart of Caroline Moorehead’s fascinating history. The issues that emerge reveal not only a great deal about the power of fascism, but also the ease with which dictatorship so easily took hold in a country weakened by war and a continent mired in chaos and desperate for peace.