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Cruel Crossing - Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees (Paperback)
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Cruel Crossing - Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 430
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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. 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 Liberte - 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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