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Laddar... Cruel crossing: escaping Hitler across the Pyreneesav Edward Stourton
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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. This title uncovers stories of midnight scrambles across rooftops and drops from speeding trains; burning Lancasters, doomed love affairs, horrific murder and astonishing heroism. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.542165History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- Military History Of World War II Campaigns and battles by theatre European theatreKlassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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His book doesn't disappoint. He manages the wealth of material he's discovered about French, Belgians, British, Americans all involved in the complicated and dangerous process of getting Jews, crashed airmen, escaped prisoners, and above all young Frenchmen escaping the dreaded enforced STO enforced labour programme of the Vichy Government in WWII. He describes the extreme difficulties of crossing the stark and inhospitable higher reaches of the Pyrenees, and brings to life many of the stories of passeurs and escapees. There are so many threads to bring together, so many aspects to this story, but Stourton makes an appealing narrative of the whole. This book is immensely readable, endlessly fascinating, and brings a difficult period of French history to light in a most approachable manner. ( )