A bold and dangerous family : the Rossellis and the fight against Mussolini /
by Moorehead, Caroline.
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BookPublisher: London : Chatto & Windus, 2017Description: xv, 432 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780701188733 (hbk.) :; 0701188731 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 945.091 MOOSubject(s): Rosselli family | Anti-fascist movements -- Italy -- History | Italy -- Politics and government -- 1922-1945 | Italy -- Social conditions -- 1918-1945 | History | HistorySummary: Mussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him: arson, murder, destruction of homes and offices, bribes, intimidation and the forcible administration of castor oil. His opponents were beaten into submission. But the tide turned in 1924 when his assassins went too far, horror spread across Italy and 20 years of struggle began. Antifascist resistance was born and it would end only with Mussolini's death in 1945. Among those whose disgust hardened into bold and uncompromising resistance was a family from Florence: Amelia, Carlo and Nello Rosselli. Caroline Moorehead's research into the Rossellis struck gold. She has drawn on letters and diaries never previously translated into English to reveal, in all its intimacy, a family driven by loyalty, duty and courage, yet susceptible to all the self-doubt and fear that humans are prey to.
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| 944.9081 EME Riviera dreaming : | 945 OXF The Oxford illustrated history of Italy | 945.083 PAR The hero's way : walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna / | 945.091 MOO A bold and dangerous family : | 945.091 WIL Duce : the contradictions of power : the political leadership of Benito Mussolini / | 945.31 ACK Venice: pure city | 945.311 JOH Love from Venice : a golden summer on the Grand Canal / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him: arson, murder, destruction of homes and offices, bribes, intimidation and the forcible administration of castor oil. His opponents were beaten into submission. But the tide turned in 1924 when his assassins went too far, horror spread across Italy and 20 years of struggle began. Antifascist resistance was born and it would end only with Mussolini's death in 1945. Among those whose disgust hardened into bold and uncompromising resistance was a family from Florence: Amelia, Carlo and Nello Rosselli. Caroline Moorehead's research into the Rossellis struck gold. She has drawn on letters and diaries never previously translated into English to reveal, in all its intimacy, a family driven by loyalty, duty and courage, yet susceptible to all the self-doubt and fear that humans are prey to.
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