A House in the Mountains The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism 1st Edition by Caroline Moorehead 0735279721 9780735279728

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ISBN 10: 0735279721

ISBN 13: 9780735279728

Author: Caroline Moorehead

The extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance against the Nazis and the Fascists during the Second World War.

In the late summer of 1943, when Italy changed sides in WWII and the Germans, now their enemies, occupied the north of the country, an Italian Resistance was born. Ada, Frida, Silvia and Bianca were four young Piedmontese women who joined the Resistance, living secretively in the mountains surrounding Turin. They were not alone. Between 1943 and 1945, as the Allies battled their way north, thousands of men and women throughout occupied Italy rose up and fought to liberate their country from the German invaders and their Fascist collaborators. What made the partisan war all the more extraordinary was the number of women in its ranks.

The bloody civil war that ensued across the country pitted neighbour against neighbour, and brought out the best and worst in Italian society. The courage shown by the partisans was exemplary, and eventually bound them together as a coherent fighting force. And the women’s contribution was invaluable—they fought, carried messages and weapons, provided safe houses, laid mines and took prisoners. Ada’s house deep in the mountains became a meeting place and refuge for many of them. The death rattle of Mussolini’s two decades of Fascist rule—with its corruption, greed and anti-Semitism—was unrelentingly violent and brutal, but for the partisan women it was also a time of camaraderie and equality, pride and optimism. They would prove, to themselves and to the world, what resolve, tenacity and above all exceptional courage could achieve.

A House in the Mountains The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism 1st Table of contents:

Part One: The Fall of Italy

Chapter 1: A Roman Coup

Chapter 2: Interlude

Chapter 3: Bursting into Life

Chapter 4: A War Zone

Chapter 5: Making Lions

Chapter 6: The Piccoli Geni

Chapter 7: A Little Woman

Part Two: A Year of Fire

Chapter 8: Heedless

Chapter 9: The Hunters and the Hunted

Chapter 10: A Lizard Among the Rocks

Chapter 11: Nesting in Kitchens

Chapter 12: Summer of Flames

Chapter 13: Haunted by Death

Chapter 14: Learning to Live Better

Part Three: Liberation

Chapter 15: Mothers of the Resistance

Chapter 16: Squashing the Cockroaches

Chapter 17: Insurrection

Chapter 18: Bloodletting

Chapter 19: A Love of Forgetting

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