Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker's Wife, and Mussolini's Daughter Outwitted the Nazis

Tilar J. Mazzeo

Feb 2023 · Bolinda · Narrated by Lisa Flanagan

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In 1943, Edda Mussolini, daughter of the fascist dictator, gave her father and Hitler an extraordinary ultimatum – release her husband, Italy’s former foreign minister, Galeazzo Ciano, from prison, or risk her leaking her husband’s incendiary diaries to the press. Instead, Hitler and Mussolini vowed to do everything in their power to destroy the diaries – even if it meant killing Edda. They ordered Hilde Beetz, a German spy, to seduce Ciano in prison in order to learn the diaries’ location. But Hilde fell in love with Ciano, and joined forces with Edda to try to save him from execution. When this failed, Edda fled with Hilde’s assistance. Upon learning of Edda’s escape, US intelligence sent in socialite Frances de Chollet to find Edda and get her to hand over the diaries to the Americans. Against all expectations, what developed was a rich and humanising friendship. With all the twists and turns of a spy thriller, this is the story of three women whose lives were drawn together in one of the most unlikely rescues of the Second World War.

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Tilar J. Mazzeo is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a half-dozen award-winning non-fiction cultural histories, including The Widow Clicquot, which was made into a major motion picture starring Haley Bennett, Tom Sturridge and Sam Riley. One of her recent non-fiction works, Sisters in Resistance, is the true story of how a German spy, a banker's wife and Mussolini's daughter joined unlikely forces to outwit the Nazis and provide evidence of war crimes at Nuremberg.

Lisa Flanagan is an award-winning narrator, voice actor, stage director, improviser, opera librettist, and classical singer. Her voiceover work includes animation, video games, and commercials. Lisa has received multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, Voice Arts Awards, and the 2019 Audie Award winner for Fantasy.

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