A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead
On an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, 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;
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, and her most recent book is Dancing to the Precipice, a biography of Lucie de la Tour du Pin.She lives in London and Italy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780701182823 |
| ISBN 10 | 0701182822 |
| Title | A Train in Winter |
| Author | Caroline Moorehead |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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