200,000 Heroes: Italian Partisans and the American OSS in WWII

by Leon Weckstein

Italy, July 1944. The unendurable insult to Italy's inherently genial way of life brought about by Hitler's storm-troopers and Mussolini's Fascist toadies was both taking its toll on the people of Italy and creating a fledgling underground Resistance movement whose heroic ranks would soon swell to nearly 200,000 brave men and women. Author Leon Weckstein was there--an American GI in combat fighting with and befriending the Partisans. Here is the story, as told through eye-witness accounts and carefully researched historical archives, of the Italian Partisans and their American OSS allies? battle to destroy the Nazi-Fascist regime and expel the culprits from their beloved Italy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555716989
• ISBN13: 9781555716981
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Hellgate Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"