Document Type:
Book
Author/editor:
Caroline Moorehead
 
Standard: Moorehead, Caroline [Caroline Moorehead]
Title:
The house in the mountains : the women who liberated Italy from fascism

Standard:

Date of Publication:
2019
Place of Publication:
London

Standard: London [Londres]

Publisher/Printer name:
Chatto & Windus

Standard: Chatto & Windus [Chatto and Windus]

ISBN/ISSN:
9781784741402 ; 9781784741419
Pages:
xxvi, 390 p.
Number of illustrations:
fotografie in bianco e nero
Format :
24 cm
Subjects:
Gobetti, Ada
Malan, Frida
Pons, Silvia (1919-1958)
Resistance - Piedmont - 1943-1945
Resistance - Waldensian Valleys - 1943-1945
Women - Participation in Resistgance - Italy - 1943-1945

Table of contents:

Contents Principal Characters p.xi Chronology p.xiii Maps p.xvi Preface p.xix Part one: The fall of Italy p.1 1.A Roma coup p.3 2.Interlude p.24 3.Burtsting into life p.37 4.A war zone p.55 5.Making lions p.72 6.The piccoli geni p.90 7.A little woman Part two: A year of fire p.133 8.Heedless p.135 9.The hunters and the hunted p.156 10.A lizard among the rocks p.167 11.Nesting in kitchens p.181 12.Summer of flames p.198 13.Haunted by death p.205 14.Learning to live better p.230 Part three: Liberation p.253 15.Mothers of the Resistance p.255 16.Squashing the cokroaches p.270 17.Insurrection p.289 18.Bloodletting p.312 19.A love of forgetting p.330 Afterword p.345 Acknowledgements p.349 List of illustrations p.351 Bibliography p.353 Notes p.363 Index p.375

Summary/Notes:

Traduzione italiana: Caroline Moorehead, La casa in montagna, 2020

Si trovano numerosi riferimenti ai luoghi delle Valli Valdesi teatro della Resistenza, a donne e uomini valdesi che hanno partecipato alla Resistenza. Riferimenti ricavabili dall'index da p. 375