The Einstein Vendetta: Hitler, Mussolini, and a true story of murder
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Florence, August 1944. Fifteen miles south-east of the city, a unit of German soldiers arrive at Il Focardo, the home of Robert Einstein, first cousin of the famous scientist Albert Einstein. Nearby, Robert is hiding out in the Tuscan countryside, while his wife and daughters remain in the villa. Twelve hours later, Nina, Luce and Anna-Maria are brutally murdered. In this book, Thomas Harding recounts the story of an unthinkable crime, one that unspools to reveal Italy’s brutal wartime history – its fall to fascism, antisemitism and bitter partisanship – and a family’s search for justice.
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Hanns and Rudolf and The House by the Lake comes a gripping true story of murder, war and injustice in Nazi-occupied Florence
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TUSCANY, 1944. German soldiers arrive at a villa on the outskirts of Florence to interrogate the cousin of the world's most famous scientist. Hours later, innocent civilians are dead and the troops have vanished.
Weaving together first-hand testimony, unpublished material and original interviews, Thomas Harding tells a dramatic story of vengeance - and of one family's personal torment - as Nazi forces made a last brutal stand ahead of impending Allied liberation.
'I absolutely devoured The Einstein Vendetta' EDMUND DE WAAL
'Thomas Harding is a researcher of the first rank' DAILY EXPRESS
'Harding evokes time and place beautifully, while paying forensic attention to detail. The result is a slow burn of cliff-hangers to keep the pages turning' SPECTATOR
'The Einstein Vendetta will tug at your heartstrings and prompt righteous outrage' TELEGRAPH
Additional information
| Weight | 316 g |
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| Dimensions | 19.7 × 12.9 × 2.7 cm |
| Book_author | Harding, Thomas |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
| Imprint | Penguin Books |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 256 |
| Language | English |
| Dewey | 364.152309455109044 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
