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1) A train in winter: an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
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In January 1943, the Gestapo hunted down 230 women of the French Resistance and sent them to Auschwitz. This is their story, told in full for the first time--a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance, survival, and the power of friendship to transcend evil that is an essential addition to the history of World War II.
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The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers the next chapter in "The Resistance Quartet": the astonishing story of the aristocratic Italian family who stood up to Mussolini's fascism, and whose efforts helped define the path of Italy in the years between the World Wars-a profile in courage that remains relevant today.
Members of the cosmopolitan, cultural aristocracy of Florence at the beginning of the twentieth century,...
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the absorbing story of a French village that helped save thousands hunted by the Gestapo during World War II-told in full for the first time. Le Chambon-sur-Lignon is a small village of scattered houses high in the mountains of the Ardèche, one of the most remote and inaccessible parts of Eastern France. During the Second World War, the inhabitants of this tiny mountain village...
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The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter returns with the "moving finale" (The Economist) of her Resistance Quartet-the powerful and inspiring true story of the women of the partisan resistance who fought against Italy's fascist regime during World War II.
In the late summer of 1943, when Italy broke with the Germans and joined the Allies after suffering catastrophic military losses, an Italian Resistance was born. Four young Piedmontese women-Ada,...
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The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter returns with the final volume in her Resistance Quartet-the powerful and inspiring true story of the women of the partisan resistance who fought against Italy's fascist regime during World War II-as riveting, intimate, and cinematic as the novels The Nightingale and The Alice Network.
In the late summer of 1943, when Italy broke with the Germans and joined the Allies after suffering catastrophic military losses,...
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