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A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini

A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini

by Caroline Moorehead (Author)

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    Hardcover 2017

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Praise for A Train in Winter: A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope...In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one. (Mail on Sunday). Praise for Village of Secrets: An uplifting tale of courage and morality. (The Sunday Times). 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, intimidation and the forcible administration of castor oil. His opponents - including editors, publishers, 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 twenty years of struggle began. Antifascist resistance was born and it would end only with Mussolini's death in 1945. Among those whose disgust hardened into bold and uncompromising resistance was a family from Florence: Amelia, Carlo and Nello Rosselli. Caroline Moorehead's research into the Rossellis struck gold. She has drawn on letters and diaries never previously translated into English to reveal - in all its intimacy - a family driven by loyalty, duty and courage, yet susceptible to all the self-doubt and fear that humans are prey to. Readers are drawn into the lives of this remarkable family - and their loves, their loyalties, their laughter and their ultimate sacrifice.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 448
 Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 15 Jun 2017
ISBN 10: 0701188731
ISBN 13: 9780701188733
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 *
A professional historian of modern Italy might... think it about time thay we had a clear and genuine account of the Rosselli's story in English. This is what Caroline Moorehead provides in her engrossing new book -- RJB Bosworth * Oldie *
It's a shocking and very powerful story, and can hardly avoid putting the question - what would you do in these circumstances? -- Philip Hensher * Spectator *
Humane and engrossing -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * Observer *
Absorbing -- Ian Thomson * New Statesman *
Fascinating -- Gabriel Josipovici * Jewish Chronicle *
Spellbinding... A poignant reminder of the high price of freedom. -- Simon Shaw * The Mail on Sunday *
A fine book... Sound scholarship is wedded to an elegant and captivating narrative style. -- Gigliola Sulis * The Times 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.