Caroline Moorehead - The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism

Daisy Heath

CAROLINE MOOREHEAD is the author of the international bestsellers A Train in Winter, A Bold and Dangerous Family and Village of Secrets, nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Caroline Moorehead is also the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo and Martha Gellhorn. She lives in London, UK.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

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Over the Rim of the World: The Letters of Freya Stark (ed.)

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Betrayed: Children in Todays World (ed.)

Bertrand Russell: A Life

The Lost Treasures of Troy

Dunants Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross

Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val dOrcia

Martha Gellhorn: A Life

Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees

The Letters of Martha Gellhorn (ed.)

Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution

A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival

Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France

A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini

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Copyright 2019 Caroline Moorehead

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

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

Names: Moorehead, Caroline, author.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20190159855 | Canadiana (ebook) 2019015991X | ISBN 9780735279728 (softcover) | ISBN 9780735279735 (HTML)

Subjects: LCSH: WomenItalyBiography. | LCSH: Women political activistsItalyBiography. | LCSH: Women soldiersItalyBiography. | LCSH: Anti-fascist movementsItalyHistory20th century. | LCSH: Women and warItalyHistory20th century. | LCSH: Women in warItalyHistory20th century. | LCSH: Women political activistsItalyHistory20th century. | LCSH: ItalyHistoryAllied occupation, 1943-1947. | LCSH: ItalyHistoryGerman occupation, 1943-1945.

Classification: LCC DG574 .M66 2020 | DDC 945.091092/52dc23

Cover (front): antifascist women, Milan, 1945 SZ Photo/amw/Bridgeman Images, (back): Italian Alps courtesy of Dorling Kindersley/Alamy Stock Photo

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For Stella

The hour to resist had arrived; the hour to be men to die like men and to live like men.

Pietro Calamandrei, Uomini e citt della Resistenza, 1955

We women must now give everything to saving our homeland, our life, our bread. We too must not hesitate. We will show with our actions that we too are capable of every sacrifice.

Gruppi di difesa della donna e per lassistenza ai combattenti della libert, July 1944