AMONG THE ITALIAN PARTISANS: The Allied Contribution to the Resistance

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Story of foreigners -- Britons, Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders, South Africans, Americans, Russians, Poles, and Yugoslavs -- who volunteered to join the guerrilla war against Germans and Fascists in WWII Italy.

Most were escaped prisoners of war who fled their camps after the Italian armistice and surrender in September 1943. From the summer of 1944 the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) built on information from their compatriots in enemy territory to send in agents to help arm and train the partisans and to coordinate airdrops.

Against the backdrop of 20 months of savage warfare on the mainland, this is the full story of the Allied servicemen who took part in the Italian Resistance, which became one of the greatest insurgent movements in Western Europe.