A Train in Winter - Moorehead, Caroline

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Résumé :
Paperback edition of Moorehead's book which tells the story of 230 French women resisters who were rounded up by the Gestapo in 1943 and sent on a train to Auschwitz. 49 of them survived, and this is a portrait not just of a harrowing part of history but of ordinary people, bravery & endurance. From the author of Betrand Russell and Martha Gellhorn. 'A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope.' Kathryn Hughes, Mail On Sunday

Biographie:
Caroline Moorehead is the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo and Martha Gellhorn. Well known for her work in human rights, she has published a history of the Red Cross and a book about refugees, Human Cargo. Her most recent book, Dancing to the Precipice, a biography of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, was shorlisted for the Costa Biography Award in 2009. Caroline lives in London....

Sommaire:
Caroline Moorehead is a bestselling and prize-winning author, and the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo, Madame de la Tour du Pin and Martha Gellhorn. Her recent books - a quartet focussed on resistance to dictatorship, particularly in Italy - were shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Orwell Prize and the Costa Biography Award. She lives in London....

This serious and heartfelt book does deliver on its promise of a tale of how female friendship can make the difference between living and dying... Profound -- Brian Schofield Sunday Times A harrowing but also uplifting shared story of friendship, courage and endurance Independent A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope. They risked their lives to defeat Fascism, by printing subversive literature, hiding Jewish friends or, in the case of one girl, simply insulting a French youth because he had decided to co-operate with the Nazis. The price they paid for their bravery was terrible. A Train in Winter could have been a sad, almost morbid book. In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one -- Kathryn Hughes Mail on Sunday Compassionate, meticulous and compulsively enthralling... This book is essential reading. The litany of names at the end, with their brief biographies (Yolande, Cecile, Poupette, Mitzy, Lucie...) reminds us weeping is not enough. It bears witness - and warns -- Bel Mooney Daily Mail Moorehead tells her appalling story in measured prose that sets off perfectly the reader's growing sense of wonder that such heroism is possible Guardian