Peter Grose

A Good Place to Hide: How One French Community Saved Thousands of Lives in World War II

Buch

Nobody asked questions, nobody demanded money. Villagers lied, covered up, procrastinated and concealed, but most importantly they welcomed.This is the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3,500 Jews under the noses of the Germans and the soldiers of Vichy France. It is the story of a pacifist Protestant pastor who broke laws and defied orders to protect the lives of total strangers. It is the story of an eighteen-year-old Jewish boy from Nice who forged 5,000 sets of false identity papers to save other Jews and French Resistance fighters from the Nazi concentration camps.… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-60598-692-0
EAN: 9781605986920
Produktnummer: 16472580
Verlag: Pegasus Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Masse: H23.6 cm x B16.0 cm x D3.0 cm 499 g
Gewicht: 499

Über den Autor

Peter Grose is a former journalist and literary agent. He is also the former publisher at Secker and Warburg. A Good Place to Hide is Grose's American debut.