A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism Contributor(s): Moorehead, Caroline (Author) |
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ISBN: 0062686372 ISBN-13: 9780062686374 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Military - World War Ii - History | Women - History | Europe - Italy |
Dewey: 940.534 |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.4" W x 8" (0.65 lbs) 416 pages |
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Publisher Description: The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter returns with the moving finale (The Economist) of her Resistance Quartet--the powerful and inspiring true story of the women of the partisan resistance who fought against Italy's fascist regime during World War II. The bloody civil war that ensued pitted neighbor against neighbor, and revealed the best and worst in Italian society. The courage shown by the partisans was exemplary, and eventually bound them together into a coherent fighting force. But the death rattle of Mussolini's two decades of Fascist rule--with its corruption, greed, and anti-Semitism--was unrelentingly violent and brutal. Drawing on a rich cache of previously untranslated sources, prize-winning historian Caroline Moorehead illuminates the experiences of Ada, Frida, Silvia, and Bianca to tell the little-known story of the women of the Italian partisan movement fighting for freedom against fascism in all its forms, while Europe collapsed in smoldering ruins around them. |