The society beauty and the fascist dictator

{ "b" : "The Woman Who Shot Mussolini"}

By Frances Stonor Saunders

Faber & Faber, €24

History has a way of immortalising people based not just on what they do, but on when they do it.

Thus, someone like Lieutenant Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg will always remain a hero for his role in the failed assassination attempt of Hitler in July 1944, because by that time, Hitler was increasingly viewed as a ...