Cruel Crossing: Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees

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Doubleday, 2013 - History - 339 pages
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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About the author (2013)

EDWARD STOURTON is the author of six previous books. He is newspaper columnist, writer and presenter of several high-profile current affairs programmes and documentaries for radio and television, and regularly presents BBC Radio Four programmes such as "The World at One, The World this Weekend, Sunday "and "Analysis." He is a frequent contributor to the "Today "programme, where for ten years he was one of the main presenters.

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