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The Moro Affair

Leonardo Sciascia author Sacha Rabinovitch translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Granta Books

Published:2nd Jan '14

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A penetrating and uncompromising account of one of the greatest scandals in modern Italian politics - the kidnap and murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro

On 16 March 1978, Aldo Moro, former Italian Prime Minister, was ambushed in Rome. Within three minutes the gang killed all five members of his escort and bundled Moro into one of three getaway cars. An hour later the Red Brigades announced that Moro was in their hands; on 18 March they said he would be tried in a 'people's court of justice'. Seven weeks later Moro's body was discovered in the boot of a Renault parked in the crowded centre of Rome. In this book, Leonardo Sciasica, a master of detective fiction, untangles the real-life events of these crucial weeks and provides a unique insight into the dangerous world of Italian politics in the 1970s.

ISBN: 9781847089298

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 9mm

Weight: 96g

176 pages