- 2011 edition, 374 pages, incl. index
- Published by Chatto & Windus, Great Britain.
- Format: Soft cover, Format C (tradesize)
- Very good condition. Minor page edge tanning.
A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival. Indexed and Illustrated.
On an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, 230 French woman resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz - the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women of the resistance to a death camp.
The youngest was a schoolgirl of 15, the eldest a farmer's wife of 68; there were among them teachers, biochemists, sales girls, secretaries, housewives and university lecturers.
Caroline Moorehead's remarkable book is the story of these women - the first time it has been told. It is about who they were, how and why they joined the resistance, how they were captured and treated by the French police and the Gestapo, their journey to Auschwitz and their daily life in the death camps - and about what it was like for the 49 survivors when they returned to France.
Six of the women were still alive in 2010 and able to tell their stories. Drawing on interviews with survivors and their families, on German, French and Polish archives, and on documents held by World War Two resistance organisations, A Train in Winter covers a harrowing part of our history but is, ultimately, a portrait of ordinary people, of bravery and endurance, and of the particular qualities of female friendship.
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