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A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
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In January 1943, the Gestapo hunted down 230 women of the French Resistance and sent them to Auschwitz. This is their story, told in full for the first time--a searing and unforgettable chronicle o...
In January 1943, the Gestapo hunted down 230 women of the French Resistance and sent them to Auschwitz. 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 to transcend evil that is an essential addition to the history of World War II.
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- Creator
- Caroline Moorehead
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : HarperCollins, 2011
- Physical Details
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- 374 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780061650703, 0061650706
- OCLC
- ocn703206408
- "Originally published in Great Britain in 2011 by Chatto & Windus"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-351) and index.
- Part one. An enormous toy full of subtleties -- The flame of French resistance -- Daughters of the Enlightenment -- The hunt for resisters -- Waiting for the wolf -- Indulgent towards women -- Recognising the unthinkable -- "We have other plans for them" -- Frontstalag 122 ; Part two. Le Convoi des 31000 -- The meaning of friendship -- Keeping alive, remaining me -- The disposables -- Pausing before the battle -- Slipping into the shadows -- The women
Subjects
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- France -- Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
- Women concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Biography.
- Women prisoners of war -- France -- Biography.
- Female friendship -- France.
- France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.