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

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 women, Ada, Frida, Silvia and Biancaliving secretly in the mountains surrounding Turin, risked their lives to overt...

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Main Author: Moorehead, Caroline (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Series:The Resistance quartet ; [bk. 4]
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Physical Description:xxvi, 390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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