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Partisan Diary: A Woman's Life In The Italian ResistanceStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionAda Gobetti's Partisan Diary is both diary and memoir. From the German entry into Turin on 10 September 1943 to the liberation of the city on 28 April 1945, Gobetti recorded an almost daily account of events, sentiments, and personalities, in a cryptic English only she could understand. Italian senator and philosopher Benedetto Croce encouraged Ada to convert her notes into a book. Published by Giulio Einaudi editore in 1956, it won the Premio Prato, an annual prize for a work inspired by the Italian Resistance (Resistenza). From a political and military point of view, the Partisan Diary provides firsthand knowledge of how the partisans in Piedmont fought, what obstacles they encountered, and who joined the struggle against the Nazis and the Fascists. The mountainous terrain and long winters of the Alpine regions (the site of many of their battles) and the ever-present threat of reprisals by German occupiers and their fascist partners exacerbated problems of organization among the various partisan groups. Author descriptionAda Gobetti (1902-1968) was a member of Italian Resistance.Jomarie Alano is a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University's Institute for European Studies. Table of contentsPreface ; List of Acronyms ; Map ; Introduction ; 10-12 September 1943 ; 13 September-16 November 1943 ; 17-23 November 1943 ; 24 November 1943-23 March 1944 ; 24 March-1 April 1944 ; 2 April-25 June 1944 ; 26 June-4 July 1944 ; 5 July-14 November 1944 ; 15-27 November 1944 ; 28 November-25 December 1944 ; 30 December 1944-26 February 1945 ; 27 February-25 April 1945 ; 26-28 April 1945 |