A Train in Winter

by Moorehead, Caroline

• ISBN13: 9780062088802
• ISBN10: 0062088807
• Edition: Large
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-08
• Publisher: Harperluxe

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Caroline Moorehead is the biographer of Bertrand Russell and Martha Gellhorn, among others. Her most recent book is Dancing to the Precipice, a biography of Lucie de la Tour du Pin.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
An enormous toy full of subtleties	p. 15
The flame of French resistance	p. 35
Daughters of the Enlightenment	p. 69
The hunt for resisters	p. 100
Waiting for the wolf	p. 137
Indulgent towards women	p. 156
Recognising the unthinkable	p. 198
'We have other plans for them'	p. 219
Frontstalag 122	p. 249
Le Convoi des 31000	p. 301
The meaning of friendship	p. 346
Keeping alive, remaining me	p. 360
The disposables	p. 401
Pausing before the battle	p. 437
Slipping into the shadows	p. 476
Appendix: the women	p. 527
Source notes	p. 566
List of illustrations	p. 577
Bibliography	p. 581
Acknowledgments	p. 594
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