A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
A History, France, Holocaust book. Voltaire A true Aryan must be blond like Hitler, slender like Gring, tall like Goebbels, young like Ptain, and honest...
In January 1943, 230 women of the French Resistance were sent to the death camps by the Nazis who had invaded and occupied their country. This is their story, told in full for the first time—a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance, survival, and the power of friendship. Caroline Moorehead, a distinguished biographer, human rights journalist, and the author of Dancing to the Precipice and Human Cargo, brings to life an extraordinary story that readers of Mitchell Zuckoff’s Lost in Shangri-La, Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts, and Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken will find an...
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I had to hold fast to the end, and die of living. Caroline Moorehead, A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France // Voltaire A true Aryan must be blond like Hitler, slender like Gring, tall like Goebbels, young like Ptain, and honest like Laval. Caroline Moorehead, A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France // PCF Caroline Moorehead, A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France //
This is a powerful book and one that will stay with me for a very long time. A disturbing account of the atrocities that took place during WW2. A story about friendship, passion and survival. Women who were involved in the resistance movement of occupied France by the Germans; the steps they took to stand up and fight for their country... What an incredibly emotional, heavy and powerful book -- the cover of my copy states "compelling and moving, a necessary book" as written by the Washington Post. I would say that describes this book perfectly.Such a large part of WW2 history is revealed in heart-stopping and brutal detail. I knew embarrassingly little about Germany's... This amazing book was so thoroughly researched it took 11 pages to document her source notes and the Bibliography. Of greater significance in terms of making it a realistic and personal account, she also interviewed seven of the remaining survivors spending hours with them over a period of a year or two. Whilst I did not like this book...
