A People's Courage: Civil resistance in German-occupied Italy

by Filippo Ieranò

In September 1943 the quiet, rural region of Le Marche, in central eastern Italy, was thrown into turmoil by Italy's Armistice with the Allies. The region's prisoner of war camps were holding about 22,000 Allied servicemen who had been captured in North Africa. At the news of Italy's surrender many of the prisoners escaped into the countryside. Hunted by the occupying Germany army and Italian fascists, they were in danger and in desperate need of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 095761022X
• ISBN13: 9780957610224
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Monte San Martino Trust
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"