200,000 Heroes: Italian Partisans and the American OSS in WWII

200,000 Heroes: Italian Partisans and the American OSS in WWII by Weckstein, Leon. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781555716981.

Italy, July 1944. The unendurable insult to Italys inherently genial way of life brought about by Hitlers storm-troopers and Mussolinis Fascist toadies was both taking its toll on the people of Italy and creating a fledgling underground Resistance movement whose heroic ranks would soon swell to nearly 200,000 brave men and women. Author Leon Weckstein was there—an American GI in combat fighting with and befriending the Partisans. Here is the story, as told through eye-witness accounts and carefully researched historical archives, of the Italian Partisans and their American OSS allies battle to destroy the Nazi-Fascist regime and expel the culprits from their beloved Italy.