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A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism
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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 ...more
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 ...more
Paperback, 416 pages
Expected publication:
January 21st 2020
by Random House Canada
(first published November 14th 2019)
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This book was another win on the Goodreads giveaway. I am not a usual history buff but i found this book so interesting. While reading this book it made me so grateful to having been born at the end of the war. Thousands and upon thousands of men,women and children were killed by the Germans. The Jewish people weren't the only ones sent to camps and destroyed but Hitler appears to have even went after the destroying Italy. It was in 1943 when the Italians thought they would be treated better by
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Very interesting and well researched book. It is based on the experiences of four female friends who were active in the resistance in and around Turin. The book has a detailed narrative of events in that area from Mussolini's fall in 1943 to the post war period. The book ends sadly. Some familiar writers who were based in Turin, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg, Oriana Fallaci, are mentioned.
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Caroline Moorehead is the New York Times bestselling author of Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France; A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France; and Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. An acclaimed biographer, Moorehead has also written for the New York Review
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