A train in winter : [online electronic book] an extraordinary story of women, friendship and survival in World War Two.
A train in winter : [online electronic book] an extraordinary story of women, friendship and survival in World War Two.
By
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Moorehead, Caroline.
Publication Date
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2011
Subject Term
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Electronic books.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- France -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
Women prisoners of war -- France -- Biography.
Female friendship -- France.
Geographic Term
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France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.
Summary
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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.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9780307366672
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Provincial Public Libraries | Electronic Book | Electronic Book | Electronic record |