Description
Product ID: | 9780099523895 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | The Resistance Quartet |
Title: | A Train in Winter |
Subtitle: | A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz |
Authors: | Author: Caroline Moorehead |
Page Count: | 384 |
Subjects: | Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: historical, political & military, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, General and world history, The Holocaust, Second World War, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, General & world history, The Holocaust, Second World War, France, Poland |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. A moving and extraordinary book about courage and survival, friendship and endurance – a portrait of ordinary women who faced the horror of the holocaust together. |
Imprint Name: | Vintage |
Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2012-09-06 |