TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moorehead,Caroline
TI  - A house in the mountains: the women who liberated Italy from fascism 
SN  - 9780062979155
U1  - 940.53/45 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Underground movements
KW  - Italy
KW  - Women
KW  - Large type books
KW  - History
KW  - German occupation, 1943-1945
N1  - "Larger print"--Spine; Includes bibliographical references (pages [603]-642)
N2  - 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
ER  -