The Other Italy: The Italian Resistance in World War II

The story of the underground battle of the Italians against the Nazis and Fascisti, largely unknown outside Italy, was, unlike the French Resistance, a spontaneous, city-by-city, region-by-region uprising. This book traces the the growth of the wartime Resistance from its birth in 1943, against overwhelming odds, to its dramatic triumph two years later. Here are Neapolitan youngsters fighting German tanks; patriots operating an underground radio station inside Nazi-occupied Florence; Romans ambushing a Nazi patrol; mountain fighters blasting enemy convoys; peasants who hid partisans and Allied escapees; and priests and nuns who outfoxed Nazi and Fascist patrols. It was a moving episode, a lesson for all of us who live so easily in the kind of society dreamed of by the partisans.

Author: Maria De Blasio Wilhelm
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/17/1988
Pages: 274
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.62d
ISBN13: 9780393350142
ISBN10: 0393350142
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Italy
- History | Military | World War II