. . "1900 - 1999" . . "History." . . "United States. Army" . . . . "Personal narratives" . "Personal narratives"@en . . "Two hundred thousand heroes" . "Two hundred thousand heroes"@en . . . . "Biography" . "Biography"@en . . "Italy, July 1944. The unendurable insult to Italy's inherently genial way of life brought about by Hitler's storm-troopers and Mussolini's Fascist toadies was both taking its toll on the people of Italy and creating a fledgling underground Resistance movement whose heroic ranks would soon swell to nearly 200,000 brave men and women. Author Leon Weckstein was there-an American GI in combat fighting with and befriending the Partisans. Here is the story, as told through eye-witness accounts and carefully researched historical archives, of the Italian Partisans and their American OSS allies' battle to destroy the Nazi-Fascist regime and expel the culprits from their beloved Italy."@en . . . . "American O.S.S. and Italian partisans in WW II"@en . . . "\"The unendurable insult to Italy's inherently genial way of life brought about by Hitler's storm-troopers and Mussolini's Fascist toadies was both taking its toll on the people of Italy and creating a fledgling underground Resistance movement whose heroic ranks would soon swell to nearly 200,000 brave men and women. Author Leon Weckstein was there -- an American GI in combat fighting with and befriending the Partisans. Here is the story, as told through eye-witness accounts and carefully researched historical archives, of the Italian Partisans and their American OSS allies' battle to destroy the Nazi-Fascist regime and expel the culprits from their beloved Italy.\"--P. [4] of cover."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "200,000 heroes : American O.S.S. and Italian partisans in WW II"@en . "200,000 heroes : American O.S.S. and Italian partisans in WW II" . "History"@en . "History" . "200,000 heroes American O.S.S. and Italian partisans in WW II"@en . "Electronic books"@en . . . "HISTORY Military World War II." . . "1939 - 1945" . .