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A moving and extraordinary book about courage and survival, friendship and endurance - a portrait of ordinary women who faced the horror of war together.
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, Human Cargo. Her most recent book, Dancing to the Precipice, a biography of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, was shorlisted for the Costa Biography Award in 2009. Caroline lives in London.
This 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
*Sunday Times*
A harrowing but also uplifting shared story of friendship, courage
and endurance
*Independent*
A 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. A Train in
Winter could have been a sad, almost morbid book. In Moorehead's
expert hands it is a triumphant one
*Mail on Sunday*
Compassionate, 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
*Daily Mail*
Moorehead tells her appalling story in measured prose that sets off
perfectly the reader's growing sense of wonder that such heroism is
possible
*Guardian*
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