A true crime inves­ti­ga­tion into the mur­der of the rel­a­tives of Albert Ein­stein, set against the back­drop of Nazi-occu­pied Flo­rence dur­ing WWII. Flo­rence, August 1944. Fif­teen miles south­east of the city, a unit of Ger­man sol­diers arrives at Il Focar­do, the home of Robert Ein­stein, first cousin of the famous sci­en­tist Albert Ein­stein. Near­by, Robert is hid­ing out in the Tus­can coun­try­side, while his wife and daugh­ters remain in the vil­la. Twelve hours lat­er, Nina, Luce, and Anna-Maria are bru­tal­ly mur­dered. In The Ein­stein Vendet­ta, Thomas Hard­ing recounts the sto­ry of an unthink­able crime, one that unspools to reveal Italy’s bru­tal wartime his­to­ry — its fall to fas­cism, anti­semitism, and bit­ter par­ti­san­ship — and a family’s search for jus­tice. Vivid­ly told, Hard­ing threads his­to­ry and detec­tive sto­ry to build an unqui­et, haunt­ing testimony.