A Good Place to Hide
How One Community Saved Thousands of Lives from the Nazis In WWII
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 5000 men, women and children, 3500 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 intervie…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-85788-927-7
- EAN: 9781857889277
- Produktnummer: 20166893
- Verlag: John Murray Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'403 KB
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Peter Grose
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