Cruel Crossing: Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees - Couverture rigide

Stourton, Edward

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9780857520517: Cruel Crossing: Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees

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ISBN 10 : 0857520512 ISBN 13 : 9780857520517

Editeur : Doubleday, 2013

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Cruel Crossing 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. In this title, the author uncovers stories of midnight scrambles across rooftops and drops from speeding trains; burning Lancasters, doomed love affairs, horrific murder and astonishing heroism. Full description

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Revue de presse :

"Enthralling... a moving retelling of some of the war's most heroic episodes" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Stourton probes [the veterans'] recollections with the sensitivity that characterises his best work as a broadcaster on Radio 4... there is a raw emotion to many of the tales he draws out" (Daily Telegraph)

"Edward Stourton's portrayal of the escape lines across the Pyrenees - the courage and endurance of those involved and above all, the heroism in one man (or woman) risking their life for another - is rich in detail and a remarkable testimony to the resilience of the human spirit. A compelling read." (James Holland)

"Heart-breaking and breath-taking, and a vivid tribute both to all those who escaped from France into Spain as well as those who helped them. A thoroughly moving and very readable book." (Simon Mawer, author of The Girl Who Fell From The Sky)

"Escaping the Nazis across the Pyrenean mountain trails became one of the most extraordinary acts of spontaneous resistance of World War Two. In Cruel Crossing, Ed Stourton straps on his backpack and takes to the escape lines himself, reflecting as he treks on the courage and self-sacrifice of the escapers and evaders who went before him - many of them young women, whose remarkable stories are told here often for the first time. Stourton has produced both a compelling history and a unique mountain guide, telling his story with his familiar humour and journalistic verve." (Sarah Helm, author of A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE)

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

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 Libert� - the toughest and most dangerous of wartime routes. From his fellow pilgrims Edward Stourton uncovers stories of midnight scrambles across rooftops and drops from speeding trains; burning Lancasters, doomed love affairs, horrific murder and astonishing heroism.

The lives of the men, women and children who were drawn by the war to the Pyrenees often read as breathtakingly exciting adventure, but they were led against a background of intense fear, mounting persecution and appalling risk. Drawing on interviews with the few remaining survivors and the families 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.

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