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462:. Sometimes her story is brought up also in support of the thesis that Neapolitan resistance was not led by spontaneous riots, as is largely believed, but as the result of activity organized locally, within an internationally agreed strategy.
296:, as planned by the British strategy. Also this mission ended with a failure, five attempts without any landing. Moreover, Maddalena lost all her clothes that she had with herself, and was later reimbursed by the SOE.
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Maddalena" E come mai, nessuno in famiglia si chiama così "Maddalena, come Maddalena Cerasuolo, Lena, Lenuccia, l'eroina delle Quattro giornate di Napoli, medaglia di bronzo per la Resistenza
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beyond the enemy lines when in Italy they were marked from Rome to
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from 27 to 30 September 1943, which is remembered as the
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Le Quattro Giornate di Napoli. Storie di Antifascisti
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The year after her death, on 3 March 2000, the mayor
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Maddalena Cerasuolo's "Agents' Particulars" file in
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