A Train in Winter : A Story of Resistance, Friendship, and Survival

from lamour

I found this to be a very difficult book to read; in fact, at one point I had to put it aside and read something a bit lighter. The first section of the book introduces us to some of the women we are to follow along on this adventure. The second section introduces us to the work of men & women wh...

from NeedMoreShelves

This was a hard book to read, but it should be - the Holocaust was an atrocity millions did not survive, and reading about it should never be easy. But I believe we owe the survivors the dignity and honor of telling their stories, in whatever way they feel those stories should be told. That is wh...

from A_Reader_of_Fictions

Obviously, I don't read too much nonfiction these days, still not recovered from the glut of required readings for my history major and also unable to resist the page-turning allure of fiction. Still, there are a few subjects that can tempt me into some scholarly reading, one of which is World Wa...

from brenzi

The train is heading for Birkenau in the early years of WWII. The passengers include 230 women of the French Resistance. This was an incredible audio of a horrific experience. Part One was about living in France and taking part in the Resistance. Struggling with the Vichy government as well as th...

from japaul22

I'm starting off 2017 with a remarkable book about women who were active in the French Resistance during the German occupation of France in WWII. These women were arrested for varied acts of resistance against the German occupiers such as transporting Jews to the free zone, hiding people wanted b...