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A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France / Caroline Moorehead

By:

Moorehead, Caroline

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Toronto : Vintage Canada , 2012, c2011.Edition: First Vintage Canada editionDescription: 374 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:

9780307356956

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

940.53 MOO

LOC classification:

D802.F8 M637 2011

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	940.53 MOO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		039207

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Originally published in hardcover in Canada in 2011 and simultaneously in the United Kingdom in 2011 by Chatto & Windus.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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