A Bold and Dangerous Family: One Family’s Fight Against Italian Fascism (The Resistance Quartet)

A Bold and Dangerous Family: One Family’s Fight Against Italian Fascism (The Resistance Quartet)

by Caroline Moorehead (Author)

Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD Mussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him: arson, murder, destruction of homes and offices, bribes and intimidation. His opponents - including editors, union representatives, lawyers and judges - were beaten into submission. But the tide turned in 1924 when his assassins went too far, horror spread across Italy, and antifascist resistance was born. Among those whose disgust hardened into bold and uncompromising resistance was a family from Florence: Amelia, Carlo and Nello Rosselli. Caroline Moorehead draws readers into the lives of this remarkable family - their loves, their loyalties, their laughter and their ultimate sacrifice.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01 Feb 2018

ISBN 10: 0099590158
ISBN 13: 9780099590156
Book Overview: Following two bestselling books on the French Resistance, including the Samuel Johnson-shortlisted Village of Secrets, Caroline Moorehead turns her attention to the anti-fascist movement in Italy.

Media Reviews
A gripping tale of intrigue... I was enormously moved * Observer *
Expertly alternating vivid domestic detail with lucid exposition of the gradual evolution of totalitarianism... It feels like the book she was born to write -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * Guardian *
Moorehead's book, written with sensitivity, erudition and balance, is a fine tribute to the Rosselli family * Financial Times *
Carefully, and with considerable skill, Moorehead juxtaposes the growth into maturity of the intelligent Florentines, Carlo and Nello, with a vivid account of the turbulent conditions that enabled Fascism to take root -- Miranda Seymour * Daily Telegraph *
A Bold and Dangerous Family represents a major contribution to the study of anti-Fascism, further enriched by Caroline Moorehead's vivid portrayal of interwar Italy and Europe -- Jonathan Keates * Literary Review *
Author Bio
Caroline Moorehead is the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo and Martha Gellhorn. Her biography of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Dancing to the Precipice, was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award in 2009 and her most recent book Village of Secrets was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.