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The bicycle runner : a memoir of love, loyalty, and the Italian resistance /

Like all boys growing up in Rome during the 1930s and 1940s, the author was expected to join the Balilla--Italy's fascist Youth Organization. With political divisions running deep in the families within his palazzo, he and his motley group of friends were recruited into the underground Resistan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Romagnoli, G. Franco
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Romagnoli, G. Franco > Childhood and youth.
World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > Italy > Rome.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Italian.
World War, 1939-1945 > Italy > Rome.
Guerrilla couriers > Italy > Rome > Biography.
Italy > History > 1922-1945.

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