Behind Enemy Lines: The Untold Stories of Italy’s Female Warriors Who Sabotaged the Nazis
HMM: You talked a little bit about the different places that these women were, and how that really shaped the activities they took part in. I had to pull up a map of Italy, because I’m not that familiar with Italy’s geography, and it was neat to familiarize myself with the geography, which was so important to the story, the war itself. Can you talk about the different roles these women had, and the ways that where they were influenced what kinds of resistance activities they took part in?
SC: There was so much that I thought I knew – I’ve been to Italy multiple times and have been researching this for a number of years, and there was so much I didn’t know about the history, which I think is in part because Americans really like American history and there’s not a lot of Americans in this story. And so people are kind of embarrassed to admit they didn’t know these things. I didn’t know them either; I didn’t realize to what extent Italy was under occupation until I was working on this book.
