The Resistance to Nazi-Fascism is not just an Italian story. The anguish of choice, the generous impulses, the excitement of armed clashes, the ghost of betrayal and the risk of death run through the pages of all the writers who lived through those years of struggle against darkness, from the Pyrenees to the Balkans, all the way to Samarkand. Even more than historiography, perhaps, it is literature that allows us to recompose the great partisan adventure in Europe into a unified picture, however multifaceted and multiple. From Camus to Brecht, from Saint-Exupéry to Fallada, from Pahor to Duras, more than thirty voices illuminate the passions of a season at once dark and exciting, reviving the palpitations and ideals, the sufferings and hopes of the time. To reaffirm that we all proudly come from the same History. In 2005, for the sixtieth anniversary of the Liberation, in this same series Gabriele Pedullà had edited “Tales of the Resistance,” which has since established itself as essential reading on the subject. Exactly twenty years later Pedullà continues that research by widening his gaze to the entire European continent. For the Resistance was not just one, or perhaps it was: within the heterogeneous framework of the states subjugated to Nazi-Fascism, despite a thousand differences, the rebellion against the oppressor managed to unite all the peoples of Europe in the name of the same ideals of peace and freedom. If during the war there was no lack of clandestine publications designed to strengthen the consciences of citizens and spur them to sabotage the occupiers, it was especially after the Liberation that novels, short stories, memorials, apologies and even fairy tales flourished in every language about those years, deeply marking the literature of the second half of the twentieth century as the most diverse writers gave their own narrative interpretation.