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Format:

Book

Author:

Title:

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

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Publisher, Date:

New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2011.

Description:

374 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

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.

Series:

The resistance quartet ; [bk. 1]

Subjects:

Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- France -- Biography.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.

Women Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Biography.

Women prisoners of war -- France -- Biography.

Female friendship -- France.

France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.

Notes:

"Originally published in Great Britain in 2011 by Chatto & Windus"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-351) and index.

Contents:

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 -- Recognizing the unthinkable -- 'We have other plans for them' -- Frontstalag 122 -- Le Convoi des 31000 -- The meaning of friendship -- Keeping alive, remaining me -- The disposables -- Pausing before the battle -- Slipping into the shadows -- The women.

LCCN:

2011276862

ISBN:

9780061650703

0061650706

Other Number:

703206408

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

299244

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

940.53082 Moorehea