Bibliograph

A house in the mountains, the women who liberated Italy from fascism, Caroline Moorehead

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A house in the mountains, the women who liberated Italy from fascism, Caroline Moorehead

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 603-642)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A house in the mountains

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1137726854

Responsibility statement

Caroline Moorehead

Sub title

the women who liberated Italy from fascism

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

Target audience

adult

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