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A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
Contributor(s): Moorehead, Caroline (Author)
ISBN: 0061650714     ISBN-13: 9780061650710
Publisher: Harper Perennial
OUR PRICE:   $16.19  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - France
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- History | Holocaust
Dewey: 940.530
Series: P.S.
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.61 lbs) 400 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - French
- Chronological Period - 1940's
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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New York Times Bestseller

A haunting account of bravery, friendship, and endurance. -Marie Claire

The riveting and little-known story of a group of female members of the French resistance who were deported together to Auschwitz, a remarkable number of whom survived.

In January 1943, 230 brave women of the French Resistance were sent to the death camps by the Nazis who had invaded and occupied their country. This is their story, told in full for the first time--a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance, survival, and the power of friendship.

Caroline Moorehead, a distinguished biographer, human rights journalist, and author of Dancing to the Precipice and Human Cargo, brings to life an extraordinary story that readers of Mitchell Zuckoff's Lost in Shangri-La, Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts, and Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken will find an essential addition to our retelling of the history of World War II. A Train in Winter is a riveting, rediscovered story of courageous women who sacrificed everything to combat the march of evil across the world.


Contributor Bio(s): Moorehead, Caroline: -

Caroline Moorehead is the New York Times bestselling author of Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France; A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France; and Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. An acclaimed biographer, Moorehead has also written for the New York Review of Books, the Guardian, the Times, and the Independent. She lives in London and Italy.