A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France - Hardcover

Moorehead, Caroline

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061650706 ISBN 13: 9780061650703

Verlag: HarperCollins, 2011

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Críticas:

"A compelling account of human suffering and courage in the face of appalling brutality. And by the careful use of detail, and an almost obsessive curiosity, Ms. Moorehead has succeeded in frustrating one of the main aims of the Nazis'...the memory of 'le Convoi des 3100' has not disappeared."--Patrick Marnham, Wall Street Journal

"Heightened by electrifying, and staggering, detail, Moorehead's riveting history stands as a luminous testament to the indomitable will to survive and the unbreakable bonds of friendship."--Booklist (starred review)

"As chronicled by Moorehead with unblinking accuracy, their agonies are appalling to contemplate, their stories of survival and friendship under duress enthralling to hear."--More magazine

"By turns heartbreaking and inspiring."--Caroline Weber, New York Times Book Review

"Haunting account of bravery, friendship, and endurance."--Marie Claire

"Moorehead...traces the lives and deaths of all her subjects with unswerving candor and compassion.... In Moorehead's telling, neither evil nor good is banal; and if the latter doesn't always triumph, it certainly inspires."--Elysa Gardner, USA Today

"As Moorehead delves deeply into the women's fight for survival, her narrative seamlessly comes together in order to share a significant part of history whose time has come to be heard."--Meganne Fabrega, Christian Science Monitor

"Compelling.... Moorehead weaves into her suspenseful, detailed narrative myriad personal stories of friendship, courage, and heartbreak."--Kirkus Reviews

"A necessary book.... Compelling and moving.... The literature of wartime France and the Holocaust is by now so vast as to confound the imagination, but when a book as good as this comes along, we are reminded that there is always room for something new."--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

"[A] moving novelistic portrait.... An inspiring and fascinating read."--Meredith Maran, People (3 ? stars)

Reseña del editor:

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 essential addition to our retelling of the history of World War II—a riveting, rediscovered story of courageous women who sacrificed everything to combat the march of evil across the world.

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• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061650706
• ISBN 13: 9780061650703
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 374