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Cruel crossing : escaping Hitler across the Pyrenees / Edward Stourton.

by Stourton, Edward.

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Doubleday, c2013.

Stourton, Edward -- Travel -- Pyrenees.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Pyrenees.

Escapes -- Pyrenees -- History.

Pyrenees -- Description and travel.

9780857520517 (hc.)

0857520512 (hc.)

vii, 339 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The secret history of the World War II escape route through the Pyrenees from France to Spain: personal stories of endurance, betrayal and remarkable bravery. Midnight scrambles across rooftops to flee the Gestapo. Bayonets jabbed into haystacks and suspicious ticket inspectors. Nazi collaboration and Resistance betrayals. Gadgetry, burning Lancasters and evil SS officers. Doomed love affairs and heroic self-sacrifice. Everything you would expect of a tale of wartime escape and evasion is here in this collection of stories and reminiscence from the Chemin de Libertie -- the perilous climb through the Pyrenees used by men, women and children escaping Occupied France to Spain. Bringing history alive, Ed undertakes the walk to experience some of the hardship of the wartime refugees, finding himself with fellow pilgrims each with their own personal reasons for commemorating an extraordinary and desperately moving aspect of the war"--Provided by publisher.

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