Caroline Moorehead: 9 books
A Bold and Dangerous Family
The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers the next chapter in "The Resistance Quartet": the astonishing story of the aristocratic Italian family who stood up to Mussolini's fascism, and whose efforts helped define the path of Italy in the years between the...
by Caroline Moorehead
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
From Martha Gellhorn's critically acclaimed biographer, the first collected letters of this defining figure of the twentieth-century
Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant international conflict between the Spanish Civil War...
A Train in Winter
An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
In January 1943, 230 women of the French Resistance were sent to the death camps by the Nazis who had invaded and occupied their country. This is their story, told in full for the first time—a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance, survival, and the power of friendship....
Village of Secrets
Defying the Nazis in Vichy France
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the absorbing story of a French village that helped save thousands hunted by the Gestapo during World War II—told in full for the first time.
Le Chambon-sur-Lignon is a small village of scattered houses high in the mountains...
Dancing to the Precipice
The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
“[A] remarkable biography….Moorehead deftly wields periods detail…to tell the story of a captivating woman who kept her sense of self amid the vicissitudes of politics.”
—Vogue
From acclaimed biographer Caroline Moorhead comes Dancing to the Precipice, a sweeping chronicle...
by Caroline Moorehead
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2020
The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter returns with the final volume in her Resistance Quartet—the powerful and inspiring true story of the women of the partisan resistance who fought against Italy’s fascist regime during World War II—as riveting, intimate, and cinematic as the novels The...
Human Cargo
A Journey Among Refugees
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
An arresting portrait of the lives of today's refugees and a searching look into their future
The word refugee is more often used to invoke a problem than it is to describe a population of millions of people forced to abandon their homes, possessions, and families in order to find a place where...
Un train en hiver
Le train des femmes pour Auschwitz
Language: French
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Le train des femmes pour Auschwitz.
La plus jeune a 17 ans, la plus âgée, 67. Un matin glacé de janvier 1943, 230 femmes enfermées dans des camps d'internement français, ces " châteaux de la mort lente ", sont conduites par la Gestapo en gare de Compiègne. Leur destination : Auschwitz-Birkenau....
Gellhorn
A Twentieth-Century Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The first major biography of legendary war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, whose life provides a unique and thrilling perspective on world history in an extraordinary time
Martha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant international...