A Train in Winter: A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in Auschwitz (P.S.) (Resistance Trilogy, #1) (Resistance Quartet, #1)

by Caroline Moorehead

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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 the holocaust together.

On 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.

Here is the story of these women – told for the first time. A Train in Winter is a portrait of ordinary people, of their bravery and endurance, and of the friendships that kept so many of them alive.

‘A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope’ Mail on Sunday

‘Serious and heartfelt...profound’ Sunday Times

  • ISBN10 0099523892
  • ISBN13 9780099523895
  • Publish Date 6 September 2012 (first published 8 November 2011)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Vintage
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 384
  • Language English