A Good Place to Hide : How One Community Saved Thousands of Lives from the Nazis In WWII Paperback / softback
by Peter Grose
Paperback / softback
Description
During the occupation of France in WWII the villages around Le Chambon-sur-Lignon pulled off an astonishing and largely unknown feat.
Risking everything, they underwent a long-running battle of nerves and daring to hide 5,000 men, women and children, 3,500 of them Jews, from the Nazis and their Vichy stooges.
Despite the danger, a whole community rallied together, from the pacifist pastor who defied orders to the glamorous female agent with a wooden leg, from the 18-year-old master forger to the schoolgirl who ran suitcases stuffed with money for the Resistance. Told using first-hand testimonies of many of the survivors and face-to-face interviews conducted by the author, A Good Place to Hide is the thrilling story of ordinary people who thwarted the Nazis and sheltered strangers in desperate need.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages
- Publisher:John Murray Press
- Publication Date:07/04/2016
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- ISBN:9781857886498
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages
- Publisher:John Murray Press
- Publication Date:07/04/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9781857886498