Moorehead's new book is A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism.
From her interview with Anita Sethi for the Guardian:
You have written three other books about the resistance. Where did your interest come from?--Marshal Zeringue
It stems from my interest in human rights. I’ve always been fascinated by courage and how people survive seemingly unsurvivable situations. What I found were these extraordinary people – who were actually ordinary people – who got up in the morning and thought: “No, I’m not going to put up with this any more.”
Tell me about the women in the book.
I discovered, to my surprise, that everyone thinks the Italians had no resistance. There were actually 600,000 who joined the resistance; of those, 70,000 were women. Under Mussolini, they were third-class citizens, had no rights, no voice, no equality. It was the women who were the first to...[read on]