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A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History | 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
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
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
Dancing to the Precipice - The Life of Lucie de La Tour Du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era by Caroline Moorehead
$43.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Reading Level: very good
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
$40.00 NZD
Category: Historical Biography | Reading Level: very good
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
Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees by Caroline Moorehead
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
This is a new edition of this seminal book, now with a new introduction by the author on the current crisis. How can society cope with the diaspora of the twenty-first century? Is there a difference between 'good' asylum seekers and 'bad' economic migrants? What happens to those whose applications are t ...Show more
Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val D'Orcia by Caroline Moorehead
$23.00 NZD
Category: World History
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
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