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Language
English
Description
In the late summer of 1943, when Italy changed sides in the war 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 women who joined the Resistance, living clandestinely in the mountains surrounding Turin. They were not alone. Between 1943 and 1945, as the Allies battled their way north, thousands of men and women throughout occupied Italy...
3) A train in winter: an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In January 1943, the Gestapo hunted down 230 women of the French Resistance and sent them to Auschwitz. This is their story, told in full for the first time--a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance, survival, and the power of friendship to transcend evil that is an essential addition to the history of World War II.
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