A Train in Winter

Zusatztext

<p>On an icy dawn 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, 49 survivors would return to France.</p><p>Here is the story of these women - told for the first time.<i>A Train in Winter</i>is a portrait of ordinary people, of their bravery and endurance, and of the friendships that kept so many of them alive.</p><p>Longlisted for the 2012 Orwell Prize.</p>

Autorenportrait

Caroline Moorehead is the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo and Martha Gellhorn. Well known for her work in human rights, she has published a history of the Red Cross and a book about refugees,<i>Human Cargo.</i>Her most recent book,<i>Dancing to the Precipice</i>, a biography of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, was shorlisted for the Costa Biography Award in 2009. Caroline lives in London.

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