A Good Place to Hide - How One French Community Saved Thousands of Lives From the Nazis

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 the survivors and face-to-face interviews conducted by the author, A Good Place to Hide is the thrilling story of ordinary people who thwarted the Nazis and sheltered strangers in desperate need.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Grose
• Publisher: Brealey, Nicholas
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.04.2016
• EAN: 9781857886498
• ISBN: 978-1-85788-649-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 198 mm x 129 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; Europe, France, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater