High up in the mountains of the southern Massif Central in France lie tiny, remote villages united by a long and particular history. The litany of names at the end, with their brief biographies (Yolande, Cecile, Poupette, Mitzy, Lucie.) reminds us weeping is not enough. From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the fascinating story of a French village that helped save thousands hunted by the Gestapo during World War II. This is their story, told in full for the first timea searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance, survival, and the power of friendship. In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one - Kathryn Hughes * Mail on Sunday *Ĭompassionate, meticulous and compulsively enthralling. Caroline Moorehead A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship and Survival in World War Two Paperback Apby Caroline Moorehead (Author) 4.4 out of 5 stars 803 ratings Kindle Edition 12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 27.65 26 Used from 10.00 11 New from 19. 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. A Train in Winter could have been a sad, almost morbid book. The price they paid for their bravery was terrible. 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. Profound - Brian Schofield * Sunday Times *Ī harrowing but also uplifting shared story of friendship, courage and endurance * Independent *Ī story of stunning courage, generosity and hope. 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.

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'. A Train in Winter An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France.

A Train in Winter by Caroline Moorehead