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A train in winter an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France

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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 essenti...

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Main Author: Moorehead, Caroline
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2011.
Edition:1st U.S. ed
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Women > France > Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > France.
Women prisoners of war > France > Biography.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Female friendship > France.
France > History > German occupation, 1940-1945.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part one. An enormous toy full of subtleties
  • The flame of French resistance
  • Daughters of the Enlightenment
  • The hunt for registers
  • Waiting for the wolf
  • Indulgent towards women
  • Recognising the unthinkable
  • "We have other plans for them"
  • Frontstalag 122 ; Part two. Le Convoi des 31000
  • The meaning of friendship
  • Keeping alive, remaining me
  • The disposables
  • Pausing before the battle
  • Slipping into the shadows.

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