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Author Moorehead, Caroline.

Title A train in winter : an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France / Caroline Moorehead.

Publication Info. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2011.

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 Moore Stacks  D802.F8 M667 2011    DUE 05-10-24  ---
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
Description 374 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Note "Originally published in Great Britain in 2011 by Chatto & Windus"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-351) and index.
Contents Part one. An enormous toy full of subtleties -- The flame of French resistance -- Daughters of the Enlightenment -- The hunt for resisters -- 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 -- The women.
Summary 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 essential addition to the history of World War II.
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- France -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.
Women internment camp inmates -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Biography.
Women Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Biography.
Women internment camp inmates.
Poland -- Oświęcim.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Women prisoners of war -- France -- Biography.
Women prisoners of war.
France.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Female friendship -- France.
Female friendship.
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945.
Women's friendships.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 9780061650703 hardcover alkaline paper
0061650706 hardcover alkaline paper