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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...
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They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives—a singer at the Paris Opera, a midwife, a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newspapers, hid resisters, spirited Jews to safety, transported weapons, and conveyed clandestine messages. The youngest was a schoolgirl of fifteen who scrawled "V" for victory on the walls of her lycée; the eldest, a farmer's wife in her sixties who harbored escaped
...4) A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
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Harper
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20111108.
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In January 1943, the Gestapo hunted down 230 women of the French Resistance and sent them to Auschwitz. This addition to World War II literature draws on interviews with the survivors and their families; German, French, and Polish archives; and documents held by World War II resistance organizations to tell their story of bravery, survival, and friendship.
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