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''A breathtaking story'' Daily Mail Extraordinary' The Telegraph on the Cook sistersDesperate circumstances can cause ordinary women to achieve extraordinary things.No one would have predicted such glamorous and daring lives for Ida and Louise Cook two decidedly ordinary women who lived quiet lives in the London suburbs. But throughout the 1930s, the remarkable sisters rescued dozens of Jews facing persecution and death.Ida''s memoir of the adventures she and Louise shared remains as fresh, vital, and entertaining as the woman who wrote it. Even when Ida began to earn thousands as a successful romance novelist, the sisters directed every spare resource, as well as their considerable courage and ingenuity, towards saving as many as they could from Hitler''s death camps.

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'A breathtaking story'
Daily Mail

“They defy the generalisation of social history: they were
extraordinary.”
The Telegraph on the Cook sisters

The Bravest Voices

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    A Paperback / softback by Ida Cook

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      Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
      Published 7 January 2021
      ISBN-13 9780263281187
      978-0263281187
      ISBN-10 0263281183
      Also in:
      Biography Autobiography: adventurers and explorers Military History Second World War Judaism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      ''A breathtaking story'' Daily Mail Extraordinary' The Telegraph on the Cook sistersDesperate circumstances can cause ordinary women to achieve extraordinary things.No one would have predicted such glamorous and daring lives for Ida and Louise Cook two decidedly ordinary women who lived quiet lives in the London suburbs. But throughout the 1930s, the remarkable sisters rescued dozens of Jews facing persecution and death.Ida''s memoir of the adventures she and Louise shared remains as fresh, vital, and entertaining as the woman who wrote it. Even when Ida began to earn thousands as a successful romance novelist, the sisters directed every spare resource, as well as their considerable courage and ingenuity, towards saving as many as they could from Hitler''s death camps.

      Trade Review

      'A breathtaking story'
      Daily Mail

      “They defy the generalisation of social history: they were
      extraordinary.”
      The Telegraph on the Cook sisters

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