ISBN: 0307356949

How can you do this work if you have a child?" asked her mother."It is because I have a child that I do it," replied Cecile. "This is not a world I wish her to grow up in." On January 24,… More...

How can you do this work if you have a child?" asked her mother."It is because I have a child that I do it," replied Cecile. "This is not a world I wish her to grow up in." On January 24, 1943, 230 women were placed in four cattle trucks on a train in Compiegne, in northeastern France, and the doors bolted shut for the journey to Auschwitz. They were members of the French Resistance, ranging in age from teenagers to the elderly, women who before the war had been doctors, farmers’ wives, secretaries, biochemists, schoolgirls. With immense courage they had taken up arms against a brutal occupying force; now their friendship would give them strength as they experienced unimaginable horrors. Only forty-nine of the Convoi des 31000 would return from the camps in the east; within ten years, a third of these survivors would be dead too, broken by what they had lived through. In this vitally important book, Caroline Moorehead tells the whole story of the 230 women on the train, for the first time. Based on interviews with the few remaining survivors, together with extensive research in French and Polish archives, A Train in Winter is an essential historical document told with the clarity and impact of a great novel. Caroline Moorehead follows the women from the beginning, starting with the disorganized, youthful and high-spirited activists who came together with the Occupation, and chronicling their links with the biographical,biographies,biographies and history,biography and history,europe,france,history,military,parenting and relationships,politics and social sciences Women's Studies, Random House Canada<

ISBN: 0307356949

[EAN: 9780307356949], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Random House Canada], Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting th… More...

[EAN: 9780307356949], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Random House Canada], Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, that’ll have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.<

ISBN: 0307356949

[EAN: 9780307356949], Gebraucht, [PU: Random House Canada], A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but … More...

[EAN: 9780307356949], Gebraucht, [PU: Random House Canada], A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.<

ISBN: 9780307356949

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ISBN: 9780307356949

Hardcover book. 384 pages. Published by Random House Canada Media > Book, [PU: Alfred A. Knopf]