A Need to Testify

The author's thoughts on the duties and obligations of the biographer in a 30pp. essay followed by portraits of Lauro de Bosis, Ruth Drpaer, Gaetano Salvemini and Ignazio Silone, all in some manner members of the Italian Resistance during World War Two; photographs, annotations, index.

Publisher: John Murray. First English edition
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Very good in dustwrapper.


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