Browse by category
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead
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
Category: History | Series: The\Resistance Quartet Ser.
NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe extraordinary story of four courageous women who helped form the Italian Resistance against the Nazis and the Fascists during the Second World War.In the late summer of 1943, when Italy changed sides in WWII and the Germans, now their enemies, occupied the north of the country, an ...Show more
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism by Caroline Moorehead
Category: History | Series: The\Resistance Quartet Ser.
'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
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
Category: Fiction
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
Category: Biography | Series: The\Resistance Quartet Ser.
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
Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie De La Tour Du Pin and the French Revolution by Caroline Moorehead
Category: Non-Fiction
Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's rule, Lucie survived extraordinary times with great spirit ...Show more
Edda Mussolini - The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead
Category: History
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
Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead
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
Freya Stark by Caroline Moorehead
Category: Biography
Born in Paris in 1893, a precocious and tough Freya Stark spent her childhood wandering across Europe, speaking three languages by the time she was five. She became one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable and inspirational women. Renowned for her flamboyant and unorthodox behaviour, Freya was als ...Show more
Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val D'Orcia by Caroline Moorehead
Category: Biography
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
Martha Gelhorn - A Life by Caroline Moorehead
Category: Biography
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