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 Italian Resistance was born. Ada, Frida, Silvia and Bianca were four young Piedmontese women who joined the Resistance, living secretively in the mountains surrounding Turin.