{"product_id":"a-train-in-winter-9780099523895","title":"A Train in Winter","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA moving and extraordinary book about courage and survival, friendship and endurance  a portrait of ordinary women who faced the horror of the holocaust together.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women 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. Of the group, only 49 survivors would return to France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Here is the story of these women  told for the first time. \u003ci\u003eA Train in Winter\u003c\/i\u003e is a portrait of ordinary people, of their bravery and endurance, and of the friendships that kept so many of them alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA story of stunning courage, generosity and hope' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSerious and heartfelt...profound' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis serious and heartfelt book does deliver on its promise of a tale of how female friendship \"can make the difference between living and dying\"... Profound -- Brian Schofield * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eA harrowing but also uplifting shared story of friendship, courage and endurance * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eA story of stunning courage, generosity and hope. They risked their lives to defeat Fascism, by printing subversive literature, hiding Jewish friends or, in the case of one girl, simply insulting a French youth because he had decided to co-operate with the Nazis. The price they paid for their bravery was terrible. \u003ci\u003eA Train in Winter\u003c\/i\u003e could have been a sad, almost morbid book. In Moorehead's expert hands it is a triumphant one -- Kathryn Hughes * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eCompassionate, meticulous and compulsively enthralling... This book is essential reading. The litany of names at the end, with their brief biographies (Yolande, Cecile, Poupette, Mitzy, Lucie...) reminds us weeping is not enough. It bears witness - and warns -- Bel Mooney * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eMoorehead tells her appalling story in measured prose that sets off perfectly the reader's growing sense of wonder that such heroism is possible * Guardian *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732265578839,"sku":"9780099523895","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099523895.jpg?v=1719996195","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-train-in-winter-9780099523895","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}