The Sand Against the Wind

The Sand Against the Wind is a gripping story of love, danger and intrigue, during the Nazi occupation of Rome in World War II.

Churchill called it a Renaissance tragedy. Indeed, before Count Ciano's execution by Mussolini, his father-in-law, only two women attempted his rescue. His wife, Edda, who defied her father, and a female Nazi secret agent, Frau Betz, who loved him.

Between history and fiction, in the struggle for Ciano's life and his diaries, an indictment of Hitler and Ribbentrop's...