A Train In Winter Av Caroline Moorehead

<p><b>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.</b><br><br>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.<br><br> 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.<br><br> <b>‘A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope’ </b><b><i>Mail on Sunday</i></b><br><b><br>‘Serious and heartfelt...profound’ </b><b><i>Sunday Times</i></b></p>