‘I am a woman,’ Ada Gobetti wrote in a clandestine Piedmont newsletter in 1943:
An insignificant little woman, who has revolutionised her private life — a traditionally female one, with the needle and the broom as her emblems — to transform herself into a bandit… I am not alone.
Ada, one of four female partisans whose interconnected stories weave through this history, knew what few Germans or Italian fascists yet suspected.
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