Evita: The Real Lives of Eva Peron Book

A brand new edition of this classic Deutsch biography of Eva Peron. Eva Peron was a legend in her own lifetime and since her death in 1952 the legends have proliferated. By the end of the twentieth century she had been immortalised on stage and screen and is now regarded as one of the strongest most idolised female icons of last century. Indeed in what has become a self-fulfilling prophecy one of her last apocalyptic speeches contained the declaration "I will come again and I will be millions." Evito tells the real story of this enigmatic popular heroine a village girl who rose to stardom first as an actress then as the mistress of Colonel Peron and finally as the world's most powerful presidential wife.