A magnificent and poignant story set in our mountains, so close and yet so far because they must be earned. We are after the armistice of June 1940. Some have resigned themselves to follow Marshal Pétain, while others refuse defeat, listening to the distant echoes of a general from London asking to continue the fight.
Thus, young mountaineers will combine their love for the mountains, the valleys, their landscapes, and their thirst for freedom and resistance to subjugation by the enemy. They say no and join the ranks of the resistance fighters, who, especially after the STO, refusing to serve Germany, will resist. There are Jews escaped from Poland, and love intermingles between boys and girls. The passion and impulses of the heart.
Ernest Di Gregorio offers us here a captivating novel, where the reader will discover both this sad page of our history where there were bastards and cowards, but also those who still knew what the word “honor” meant. They will fight against the enemy by giving their youth.
It is also a guide to discovering those high peaks whose names become familiar to you. The Ridges of Freedom, a beautiful tribute to those heroes who must never be forgotten.
