A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead
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.The youngest was a schoolgirl of 15, the eldest a farmer's wife of 68;
It is a harrowing book, not always easy to read, with two dozen or more main characters to follow; but it is fascinating, and important* The Independent *
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 story of shared story of friendship, courage and endurance. -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent, Books of the Year *
A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope. They risked their lives to defeat Fascism, by printing subversive literature, hiding Jewish friends or, in the case of one girl, simply insulting a French youth because he had decided to co-operate with the Nazis. The price they paid for their bravery was terrible. A Train in Winter could have been a sad, almost morbid book. In Moorhead's expert hands it is a triumphant one. * Mail on Sunday *
Compassionate, meticulous and compulsively enthralling...this book is essential reading. * Daily Mail *
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 story of shared story of friendship, courage and endurance. -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent, Books of the Year *
A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope. They risked their lives to defeat Fascism, by printing subversive literature, hiding Jewish friends or, in the case of one girl, simply insulting a French youth because he had decided to co-operate with the Nazis. The price they paid for their bravery was terrible. A Train in Winter could have been a sad, almost morbid book. In Moorhead's expert hands it is a triumphant one. * Mail on Sunday *
Compassionate, meticulous and compulsively enthralling...this book is essential reading. * Daily Mail *
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 shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award in 2009. Caroline lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780701182816 |
| ISBN 10 | 0701182814 |
| Title | A Train in Winter |
| Author | Caroline Moorehead |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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