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Nonfiction Monsters and partisans PRIMO LEVI’S RESISTANCE: Rebels and Collaborators in Occupied Italy By Sergio Luzzatto 284 pp. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company Reviewed by David E. Hoekenga, M.D. Primo Levi was a noted writer, chemist and Auschwitz survivor. In the summer of 1943, after a bloody campaign in Russia and defeat at El Alamein, Mussolini was suddenly ousted. A civil war broke out with resistance toward the Germany Army and the current Italian government. Speaking of Levi, the author said, “This was his brief and unfortunate season as a partisan, or something like a partisan. Three months in the mountains of the Valle d’Aosta in northwest Italy as a twenty-four-year-old, linked to a little band that had come together at the Col de Joux—a mountain pass high above the town of Saint Vincent—in the autumn of 1943.” It is this brief period that is the subject of this book. Many of the exploits in this book take place, as mentioned above, in the mountainous region betw...