![]() Ultimately, France’s Special Brigades would tenaciously pursue those the Nazis considered undesirable, a long and inclusive list. ![]() Moorehead observes that French collaboration with the Nazis was widespread, particularly among the police, who were incentivized with improved pay and various other privileges. The first half of the book is devoted to setting the scene in France, in which women involved themselves in the early stages of the resistance as the Nazi grip tightened around the country and its brutality increased. Through the power of friendship, the courageous women sacrificed everything to battle against the march of evil taking place across the world. Moorehead, a biographer and human rights journalist, relays the women’s tale-a journey filled with fear, bravery, and survival. ![]() A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France (2011) by Caroline Moorehead tells the story of 230 women of the French Resistance who were sent to the death camps by the Nazis who occupied their country in January 1943. ![]()
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