During the occupation of France in WWII the villages around Le Chambon-sur-Lignon pulled off an astonishing and largely unknown feat. Risking everything, they underwent a long-running battle of nerves and daring to hide 5,000 men, women and children, 3,500 of them Jews, from the Nazis and their Vichy stooges. Despite the danger, a whole community rallied together, from the pacifist pastor who defied orders to the glamorous female agent with a wooden leg, from the 18-year-old master forger to the schoolgirl who ran suitcases stuffed with money for the Resistance. Told using first-hand testimonies of many of the survivors and face-to-face interviews conducted by the author, A Good Place to Hide is the thrilling story of ordinary people who thwarted the Nazis and sheltered strangers in desperate need.
| ISBN: | 9781857886498 |
| Publication date: | 7th April 2016 |
| Author: | Peter Grose |
| Publisher: | Nicholas Brealey Publishing an imprint of John Murray Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 384 pages |
| Genres: |
Second World War Modern warfare The Holocaust |