Description
Book SynopsisEdward Stourton is the author of six books. He is writer and presenter of several high-profile current-affairs programmes and documentaries for radio and television, and regularly presents BBC Radio Four programmes such as
The World at One,
The World This Week
end,
Sunday and
Analysis. He is a frequent contributor to the
Today programme, where for ten years he was one of the main presenters.
Trade ReviewThis is a very shocking book. It recaptures the adventure and the horror as it brilliantly conjures up the voices of the past. -- Jason Goodwin * Country Life *
Charming but astute, Stourton captures not only the extraordinary courage of the escapers and the
passeurs, or guides, who helped them, but the sense of danger and excitement as they evaded their pursuers. -- Adrian Brewer * The Tablet *
A moving retelling of some of the war's most heroic episodes -- Nigel Jones * Sunday Telegraph *
Stourton's richly rewarding research into the wartime journeys across the Pyrenees reminds us of so many dramatic stories of courage, tragedy, endurance and survival. -- Iain Finlayson * Saga Magazine *
Stourton writes evocatively and with sensitivity... an engaging collection of tales. -- Viv Watts * Daily Express *
