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A Good Place to Hide: How One Community Saved Thousands from the Nazis in World War II - The Greatest Escape
Peter Grose
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Description for A Good Place to Hide: How One Community Saved Thousands from the Nazis in World War II - The Greatest Escape
Paperback. Told with the full cooperation of many of the survivors, this is the story of WWII's greatest escape. Num Pages: 384 pages, 16pp black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 39. Weight in Grams: 260.
During the occupation of France in WWII the villages around Le Chambon-sur-Lignon pulled off an astonishing and largely unknown feat. Risking everything, they underwent a long-running battle of nerves and daring to hide 5,000 men, women and children, 3,500 of them Jews, from the Nazis and their Vichy stooges. Despite the danger, a whole community rallied together, from the pacifist pastor who defied orders to the glamorous female agent with a wooden leg, from the 18-year-old master forger to the schoolgirl who ran suitcases stuffed with money for the Resistance. Told using first-hand testimonies of many of ... Read more
During the occupation of France in WWII the villages around Le Chambon-sur-Lignon pulled off an astonishing and largely unknown feat. Risking everything, they underwent a long-running battle of nerves and daring to hide 5,000 men, women and children, 3,500 of them Jews, from the Nazis and their Vichy stooges. Despite the danger, a whole community rallied together, from the pacifist pastor who defied orders to the glamorous female agent with a wooden leg, from the 18-year-old master forger to the schoolgirl who ran suitcases stuffed with money for the Resistance. Told using first-hand testimonies of many of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857886498
SKU
V9781857886498
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About Peter Grose
Peter Grose is a former journalist, foreign correspondent, literary agent at Curtis Brown and publisher at Secker & Warburg. Until recently he was chairman of ACP UK. He now lives in France. www.petergrose.net
Reviews for A Good Place to Hide: How One Community Saved Thousands from the Nazis in World War II - The Greatest Escape
A compelling story of wartime bravery and the plight of refugees.
France
Well written in a pleasant style and easy to read... A fascinating and inspiring story.
The Association of Jewish Refugees Journal
Fabulous. A page-turning account, told with the full cooperation of many of the survivors. Meticulous and dogged research. Compelling.
Caroline Sanderson
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France
Well written in a pleasant style and easy to read... A fascinating and inspiring story.
The Association of Jewish Refugees Journal
Fabulous. A page-turning account, told with the full cooperation of many of the survivors. Meticulous and dogged research. Compelling.
Caroline Sanderson
... Read more