The Nine - How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The Powerful True Story

The thrilling, cinematic untold story of nine young women, WWII resistance fighters, captured by the Nazis, who launched a breathtakingly bold escape and found their way home.

About the author

Gwen Strauss is an award-winning children's book author and poet. Her poetry, short stories and essays have appeared in numerous places including The New Republic, New England Review, Kenyon Review, London Sunday Times and Catapult. She lives in Southern France with her three children and her dog Zola, where she works as the Director of the Dora Maar House, an artist residency programme.

Summary

The thrilling, cinematic untold story of nine young women, WWII resistance fighters, captured by the Nazis, who launched a breathtakingly bold escape and found their way home.

Foreword

The thrilling, cinematic untold story of nine young women, WWII resistance fighters, captured by the Nazis, who launched a breathtakingly bold escape and found their way home.

Product details

• Authors: Gwen Strauss, Strauss Gwen
• Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781838772062
• ISBN: 978-1-83877-206-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 243 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 546 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, True war & combat stories, HISTORY / Europe / General, military history, HISTORY / Women, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, True war and combat stories, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General