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Our province territory is full of tracks that still speak and remember us about those who fought and often died for everybody's freedom. Between those brave people we can remember many members of the first provincial Council of Turin, widely busy in the Resistance: more than the 60% of the members took part in the fight for the liberation, both fighters and politicians from Cln.
To the historical Library of Palazzo Cisterna Valdo Fusi's widowleft as a testament a corpus of books and documents which used to belong to the family library, now arrived to the same name Fund (Valdo Fusi). This collection is made of almost 2000 volumes, mostly modern, fifty reprints, 200 archivistic units (letters, postcards, pics, manuscript notes) and hundreds of papers, newspapers and magazines. Most of the works are about literature, both italian and foreign, most of all angloamerican, art and local history, but a particular attention is fixed on the history of Resistance and to the links between Fusi and the Cln. Between Fusi's works we remember Fiori rossi al Martinetto, in different editions, in which it is told about the trial of April 1944 with other eight members of the Cln that would have been shot at the Martinetto polygon, while Fusi was acquitted for lack of proves. Really important are the witnesses about Fusi himself, who was seriously injured during his activity between the partisans, gathered by Luigi Firpo in the volume published by the Centre of Piedmont Studies in 1988. Fusi, in the years after the liberation, was provincial advicer.
In the Library can be found many texts about the Resistance and the partisan war in Piedmont and in the province of Turin: near Valdo Fusi's Fiori rossi, and with the same topic there is Camminarono sulla linea dell'onore, book printed by the province of Turin in 1964, with a preface by the president Giuseppe Grosso. Always from Fusi Fund, Partigiani penne nere By Enrico Martini Mauri (Mondadori 1968), commander of the aples division, on the action done in Boves, Val Maudagna, Val Casotto and in the Langhe. A short but really complex investigation about the Resistance in the territory can be found in the 4th of April of Torino, monthly magazine of the City and Piedmont, dedicated to Torino medaglia d'oro (to the military prowess, to the city the first of August 1947).
Still in Fusi Fund, different volumes are dedicated to single figures from the Resistance, as Duccio Galimberti (Duccio Galimberti e la Resistenza italiana, di Antonino Repaci, Torino 1971, and the Duccio Galimberti eroe nazionale nel secondo Risorgimentonel XV anniversario del suo sacrificio, 3 dicembre 1944-1959) and Renato Vuillermin (Renato Vuillermin. Testimonianza Cristiana nella Resistenza, by Lorenzo Mondo, Aosta 1968). About the Cln there are three volumes printed by the historical institute of the Resistance in Piedmont: Il governo dei CLN: atti del convegno dei Comitatidi liberazione nazionale, Torino, 9-10 ottobre 1965, by Quazza-Valiani-Volterra (1966); Viva l'Italia libera!: storia e documenti del primo Comitato militare del CLN regionale piemontese, By Giampaolo Pansa La Resistenza in Piemonte: storia del CLN piemontese, by Mario Giovana (Feltrinelli 1962). In the end, La guerra civile in Italia: racconti, testimonianze, ricordi di Nuto Revelli [et al.] with Revelli's, Lajolo's, Fusi's, Vittorini's, Fenoglio's, Caleffi's, Bertoli's, Levi's, Rimanelli's, and Gandini's memories. To Turin and to the age of reconstruction is dedicated the book I sindaci della libertà. Torino dal 1945 ad oggi (cured by Ferruccio Borio, EDA 1980).
The reconstruction, aaprt from the democratic institutions, had to be physical too: in Turin a third of the buildings were destroyed, the roads and the industries severely damaged.
In order to know more details about the history of Turin province there is the collection of essays by Walter Crivellin: La Provincia di Torino, 1859-2009: studi e ricerche, ed. Franco Angeli, Milano 2009.