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Cruel Crossing. Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees

Door Edward Stourton

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#267530
Titel
Cruel Crossing. Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees
Auteur
Stourton, Edward
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Doubleday
Jaar van uitgave
2013
ISBN10
0857520520
ISBN13
9780857520524
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustrations in colour and b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting


The mountain paths are as treacherous as they are steep - the more so in the dark and in winter. Even for the fit the journey is a formidable challenge. Hundreds of those who climbed through the Pyrenees during the Second World War were malnourished and exhausted after weeks on the run hiding in barns and attics. Many never even reached the Spanish border.

Today their bravery and endurance is commemorated each July by a trek along the Chemin de la Liberté - the toughest and most dangerous of wartime routes. From his fellow pilgrims Edward Stourtonuncovers stories of midnight scrambles across rooftops and drops from speeding trains; burning Lancasters, doomed love affairs, horrific murder and astonishing heroism. Drawing on interviews with the few remaining survivors and the f
... (Lees verder)amilies of those who were there, Edward Stourton's vivid history of this little-known aspect of the Second World War is shocking, dramatic and intensely moving.
Pagina's
339
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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