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Author:

Moorehead, Caroline, author.

Title:

A house in the mountains : the women who liberated Italy from fascism / Caroline Moorehead.

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Publisher:

Harperan imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xxvi, 390 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Italy.
World War, 1939-1945--Women--Italy.
Italy--History--German occupation, 1943-1945.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-362) and index.

Summary:

In the late summer of 1943, when Italy broke with the Germans and joined the Allies after suffering catastrophic military losses, an Italian Resistance was born. Four young Piedmontese womenAda, Frida, Silvia and Biancaliving secretly in the mountains surrounding Turin, risked their lives to overthrow Italys authoritarian government. They were among the thousands of Italians who joined the Partisan effort to help the Allies liberate their country from the German invaders and their Fascist collaborators. What made this partisan war all the more extraordinary was the number of womenlike this brave quartetwho swelled its ranks.

ISBN:

0062686356
9780062686350

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1136611191

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