Behind Enemy Lines: The Untold Stories of Italy’s Female Warriors Who Sabotaged the Nazis
And what’s interesting is that these women were so underestimated because of this misogyny, that that is actually what allowed them to be so active in the war. I don’t want to say it was a good thing, but it was a way that they found their agency. They had to want to learn more on their own, and that’s what made them particularly compelling characters to follow, because certainly there were others who did similar things but who weren’t as politically conscious. I think it was that political consciousness that made them so brave, and that made them into people who were politically conscious for the rest of their lives.
