A Train in Winter

Informationen zum Autor Caroline Moorehead is a bestselling and prize-winning author, and the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo, Madame de la Tour du Pin and Martha Gellhorn. Her recent books – a quartet focussed on resistance to dictatorship, particularly in Italy – were shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Orwell Prize and the Costa Biography Award. She lives in London. Klappentext Paperback edition of Moorehead's book which tells the story of 230 French women resisters who were rounded up by the Gestapo in 1943 and sent on a train to Auschwitz. 49 of them survived, and this is a portrait not just of a harrowing part of history but of ordinary people, bravery & endurance. From the author of "Betrand Russell" and "Martha Gellhorn". 'A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope.' Kathryn Hughes, "Mail On Sunday" Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Moorehead
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2012
• EAN: 9780099523895
• ISBN: 978-0-09-952389-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; The Resistance Quartet
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, France, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Military / World War II, Poland, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Women, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Friendship, HISTORY / Europe / Poland, General & world history, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Paris (City), True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, General and world history, Modern warfare, Gender studies: women and girls, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, True stories of survival of abuse and injustice