Behind Enemy Lines: The Untold Stories of Italy’s Female Warriors Who Sabotaged the Nazis

Behind Enemy Lines: The Untold Stories of Italy’s Female Warriors Who Sabotaged the Nazis

I’ve been to Italy and taken trains between cities, and I didn’t realize to what extent mountains were so much a part of their landscape. You’re in a train, and you go through a tunnel, and you just don’t think about it: you’re in a mountain. So certainly this dramatized all of that for me. I went a year ago March and I drove to some of the same places that Bianca had gone in the Alps and it was so profound to be moving toward them and to see them get bigger and bigger and bigger, and realize how huge they are and to drive my car places where she rode her bicycle. It was so powerful, how challenging that was, and she did it all the time. Not even adding the fear factor – who’s going to stop you, or the possibility of being caught in a firefight. So that was amazing to realize how challenging her work was.

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