A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
&#8220;By turns heartbreaking and inspiring.&#8221; (Caroline Weber, New York Times Book Review)&#8220;[A] moving novelistic portrait.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. An inspiring and fascinating read.&#8221; (Meredith Maran, People (3&#xBD; stars))&#8220;An extremely moving and intensely personal history of the Auschwitz universe as experienced by these women.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. A powerful and moving book.&#8221; (Natasha Lehrer, Times Literary Supplement (UK))&#8220;[Moorehead] traces the lives and deaths of all her subjects with unswerving candor and compassion.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. In Moorehead&#8217;s telling, neither evil nor good is banal; and if the latter doesn&#8217;t always triumph, it certainly inspires.&#8221; (Elysa Gardner, USA Today)&#8220;As chronicled by Moorehead with unblinking accuracy, their agonies are appalling to contemplate, their stories of survival and friendship under duress enthralling to hear.&#8221; (More magazine)&#8220;Haunting account of bravery, friendship, and endurance.&#8221; (Marie Claire)&#8220;Compelling&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Moorehead weaves into her suspenseful, detailed narrative myriad personal stories of friendship, courage, and heartbreak.&#8221; (Kirkus Reviews)&#8220;Heightened by electrifying, and staggering, detail, Moorehead&#8217;s riveting history stands as a luminous testament to the indomitable will to survive and the unbreakable bonds of friendship.&#8221; (Booklist (starred review))&#8220;Even history&#8217;s darkest moments can be illuminated by spectacular courage, such as courage that Caroline Moorehead movingly celebrates inA Train in Winter.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Moorehead has created a somber account, sensitively rendered, of yet another grim legacy of war.&#8221; (Judith Chettle, Richmond Times-Dispatch)&#8220;The first complete account of these extraordinary women and, incredibly, over 60 years later we are still learning new and terrible truths about the Holocaust.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. An important new perspective.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Careful research and sensitive retelling.&#8221; (Buzzy Jackson, Boston Sunday Globe)&#8220;A necessary book.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Compelling and moving.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. The literature of wartime France and the Holocaust is by now so vast as to confound the imagination, but when a book as good as this comes along, we are reminded that there is always room for something new.&#8221; (Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post)&#8220;As Moorehead delves deeply into the women&#8217;s fight for survival, her narrative seamlessly comes together in order to share a significant part of history whose time has come to be heard.&#8221; (Meganne Fabrega, Christian Science Monitor)&#8220;A miraculous story about friendship and the will to overcome extraordinary cruelty, heartache and loss.&#8221; (The Jewish Journal, "Best Books of 2011")