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MOOREHEAD, CAROLINE: : A Train in Winter: A STORY OF RESISTANCE,FRIENDSHIP AND SURVIVAL

LONDON.CHATTO & WINDUS,2011.

ISBN 9780701182816.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.]No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with b/w+yellow lettering to front panel,red+ black lettered critics' reviews to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Miniscule bumping to both head+foot of spine/backstrip with reciprocal creasing - book has a slight lean.Top+fore-edges lightly toned but still generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain beige endpapers.UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-374pp [paginated] includes a preface,Pts 1+2 comprising 15 chapters in total,b/w historical, contemporary b/w photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,an appendix,source notes,illus list,a bibliography,acknowledgements and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,dedication,contents list/table with double-page b/w map (Resistance routes through wartime Europe),and a b/w map (France) to recto of last page of previous double-paged map. On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943,230 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.The youngest was a schoolgirl of 15,the eldest a farmer's wife of 68; there were among them teachers,biochemists,sales girls, secretaries,housewives and university lecturers. Caroline Moorehead's remarkable new book is the story of these women - the first time it has been told.It is about who they were,how and why they joined the resistance,how they were captured and treated by the French police and the Gestapo,their journey to Auschwitz and their daily life in the death camps - and about what it was like for the 49 survivors when they returned to France.Six of the women were still alive in 2010 and able to tell their stories.What they had to say - and this was confirmed by the children of those who died - was that great affection and camaraderie grew up among the group.They became friends,and it was precisely this friendship that kept so many of them alive.They supported and cared for one another,worked together, shared everything,watched out for each other and faced the horror together. Friendship,almost as much as luck, dictated survival. Drawing on interviews with survivors and their families,on German,French and Polish archives,and on documents held by World War Two resistance organisations,'A Train in Winter' covers a harrowing part of our history but is,ultimately,a portrait of ordinary people,of bravery and endurance, and of particular qualities of female friendship. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item for correct, insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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