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A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead
30.00 NZD
Category: 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
30.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: The\Resistance Quartet Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the women of the Italian Resistance' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES The extraordinary story of the courageous women who spearheaded the Italian Resistance during the Second World War In the late summer of 1943, in the midst of German occupation, t ...Show more
A House in the Mountains: the Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
40.00 NZD
Category: 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
A Train In Winter - A Story of Resistance, Friendship & Survival by Caroline Moorehead
27.99 NZD
39.99 (30% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good-very good
On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz — the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women of the resistance to a death camp. The youngest was a schoolgirl of 15, the eld ...Show more
A Train in Winter - A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz by Caroline Moorehead
27.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: The\Resistance Quartet Ser. | Reading Level: very good
On an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz - the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women of the resistance to a death camp. The youngest was a schoolgir ...Show more
Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead
29.99 NZD
Category: History
A thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's favourite daughter, and a heart-stopping account of the unravelling of the Fascist dream in Italy'Engrossing... Moorehead has a spirited turn of phrase, a keen eye for the telling detail and pungent quote, and a gift for marshaling complex material' Jenny Uglo ...Show more
Edda Mussolini - The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | 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
Iris Origo by Caroline Moorehead
29.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Graceful, intelligent, brave, but far from saintly, the brilliantly perceptive historian and biographer Iris Origo was one of the most intriguing and attractive women of the twentieth century. This biography throws light on the growth of Fascism in Italy in the 1920s and '30s and the effect it had on th ...Show more
Martha Gelhorn - A Life by Caroline Moorehead
29.95 NZD
36.99 (19% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Martha Gellhorn was a fearless reporter and her despatches from the front made her a legend, yet her private life was often messy and volcanic. Her determination to be a war correspondent - and her conspicuous success - contributed to the breakdown of her already stormy marriage to Ernest Hemingway. Gel ...Show more
Martha Gellhorn: A Life by Caroline Moorehead
65.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Martha Gellhorn was a fearless reporter and her dispatches from the front made her a legend, yet her private life was often messy and volcanic. Her determination to be a war correspondent - and her conspicuous success - contributed to the breakdown of her already stormy marriage to Ernest Hemingway. Gel ...Show more
The Letters of Martha Gellhorn by Martha Gellhorn; Caroline Moorehead (editor)
100.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Martha Gellhorn was one of the most extraordinary of all female war correspondents. Her letters have been selected and edited for publication by her biographer, Caroline Moorehead. Martha Gellhorn's career tracked many of the flashpoints of the 20th century: she witnessed at first hand the Depression in ...Show more
The Nine Hundred: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz by Heather Dune Macadam; Caroline Moorehead
27.99 NZD
Category: Military History
'Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten' - Caroline Moorehead On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parent ...Show more