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A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz
Caroline Moorehead
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Description for A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz
Paperback. On an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz - the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women of the resistance to a death camp. This title presents the story of these women. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 356.
A moving and extraordinary book about courage and survival, friendship and endurance – a portrait of ordinary women who faced the horror of the holocaust together.
On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz – the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women of the resistance to a death camp. Of the group, only 49 survivors would return to France.
Here is the story of these women – told ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099523895
SKU
V9780099523895
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About Caroline Moorehead
Caroline Moorehead is the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo and Martha Gellhorn. Well known for her work in human rights, she has published a history of the Red Cross and a book about refugees, Human Cargo. Her most recent book, Dancing to the Precipice, a biography of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, was shorlisted for the ... Read more
Reviews for A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz
This serious and heartfelt book does deliver on its promise of a tale of how female friendship "can make the difference between living and dying"... Profound
Brian Schofield
Sunday Times
A harrowing but also uplifting shared story of friendship, courage and endurance
Independent
A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope. They risked their lives ... Read more
Brian Schofield
Sunday Times
A harrowing but also uplifting shared story of friendship, courage and endurance
Independent
A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope. They risked their lives ... Read more