View basket and checkout
Books Events Subscriptions Vouchers Contact

The Einstein Vendetta: Hitler, Mussolini, and a true story of murder

by Thomas Harding

Paperback £10.99
Published 23rd April 2026
You’ll be able to choose Delivery or Click & Collect after you enter your address.
UK postage is £3.75, or free for orders over £60.

Available
online

Available
in Bath

Available
in Edinburgh

Available
in Ely

Available
in St Andrews

Description

*Longlisted for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2026*

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

‘I absolutely devoured The Einstein VendettaEDMUND DE WAAL

‘Thomas Harding is a researcher of the first rankDAILY 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 turningSPECTATOR

The Einstein Vendetta will tug at your heartstrings and prompt righteous outrageTELEGRAPH

———

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Weaving together first-hand testimony, unpublished material and original interviews, Thomas Harding tells a dramatic story of vengeance - and of one family’s personal torment - as Nazi forces made a last brutal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.

Details

The Einstein Vendetta: Hitler, Mussolini, and a true story of murder
by Thomas Harding

ISBN
9781405958462

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd

Binding
Paperback

Publication date
April 23, 2026

Dimensions
19.8cm x 12.9cm x 2.7cm

Excerpt