A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism

"Dramatic, heartbreaking and sweeping in scope." —Wall Street Journal

The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter returns with the "moving finale" (The Economist) of her Resistance Quartet—the powerful and inspiring true story of the women of the partisan resistance who fought against Italy’s fascist regime during World War II.

In the late summer of 1943, when Italy broke with the Germans and joined the Allies after suffering catastrophic military losses, an Italian Resistance was born. Four yo...