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A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead
$25.00 AUD
Category: War | Series: One Family's Fight Against Italian Fascism
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers the next chapter in "The Resistance Quartet": the astonishing story of the aristocratic Italian family who stood up to Mussolini's fascism, and whose efforts helped define the path of ...Show more
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
$25.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: The\Resistance Quartet Ser.
'Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the women of the Italian Resistance' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES The extraordinary story of the courageous women who spearheaded the Italian Resistance during the Second World War In the late summer of 1943, in the midst of German occupation, t ...Show more
A House in the Mountains: the Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
$35.00 AUD
Category: European
The extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance during the Second World WarIn 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 ...Show more
A Train In Winter - A Story of Resistance, Friendship & Survival by Caroline Moorehead
$32.95 AUD
Category: General
On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz — the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women of the resistance to a death camp. The youngest was a schoolgirl of 15, the eld ...Show more
A Train in Winter - A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz by Caroline Moorehead
$23.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Resistance Quartet Ser.
On an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz - the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women of the resistance to a death camp. The youngest was a schoolgir ...Show more
Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie De La Tour Du Pin and the French Revolution by Caroline Moorehead
$27.95 AUD
Category: General
Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's rule, Lucie survived extraordinary times with great spirit ...Show more
Dancing to the Precipice - The Life of Lucie de La Tour Du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era by Caroline Moorehead
$33.00 AUD
Category: European
Her canvases were the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette; the Great Terror; America at the time of Washington and Jefferson; Paris under the Directoire and then under Napoleon; Regency London; the battle of Waterloo; and, for the last years of her life, the Italian ducal courts. She witnessed first ...Show more
Edda Mussolini - The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead
$35.00 AUD
Category: Historical
Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite daughter: spoilt, venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ultimately strong and loyal. She was her father's confidante during the 20 years of Fascist rule, acting as envoy to both Germany and Britain, and pla ...Show more
Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val D'Orcia by Caroline Moorehead
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Iris Origo was one of the twentieth century's most attractive and intriguing women, a brilliantly perceptive historian and biographer whose works remains widely admired. Iris grew up in Italy with her Irish mother after the death of her wealthy American father. They settled in the Villa Medici in Floren ...Show more
Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorehead
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014 From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by the Gestapo during World War II. High up in the mountains of ...Show more
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