Behind Enemy Lines: The Untold Stories of Italy’s Female Warriors Who Sabotaged the Nazis
HMM: My sense is that people tend to romanticize the resistance, in the past and certainly when we talk about “resistance” in the future, like in Star Wars. But one of the things that I appreciated about your book is that there is nothing romantic about their experience of the resistance. These details of climbing through these paths, and sleeping in the cold, and not changing your clothes for two weeks. Not eating. At one point Anita lost so much weight that she got to a checkpoint, and the guard had a picture and said, “Have you seen this woman?” And Anita thought to herself, “It’s a picture of myself from a year ago! And you don’t even recognize me!”
