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  • 999

    The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

    by Heather Dune Macadam ...
    A PEN America Literary Award FinalistA Goodreads Choice Awards NomineeAn Amazon Best of the Year SelectionThe untold story of some of WW2’s most hidden figures and the heartbreaking tragedy that unites them all. Readers of Born Survivors and A Train Near Magdeburg will devour the tragic tale of the first 999 women in Auschwitz concentration camp. This is the hauntingly resonant true story tha... ... Read more

    $11.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Iris Origo

    Marchesa Of Val D'Orcia

    by Caroline Moorehead ...
    Iris Origo was one of the twentieth century's most attractive and intriguing women, a brilliantly perceptive historian and biographer whose works remain widely admired. Iris grew up in Italy where she became part of the colourful and privileged Anglo-Florentine set that included Edith Wharton, Harold Acton and the Berensons.When Iris married Antonio Origo, they bought and revived La Foce, a ... Read more

    $9.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Stricken Field

    A Novel

    by Martha Gellhorn ...
    "Powerfully illustrates how Western societies fail in their duty to protect the most vulnerable among us: stateless and homeless refugees." —Anne Boyd Rioux, LitHubMartha Gellhorn was one of the first—and most widely read—female war correspondents of the twentieth century. She is best known for her fearless reporting in Europe before and during WWII and for her brief marriage to Ernest Hemingway, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Train in Winter

    An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France

    by Caroline Moorehead ...
    Series Book 1 - The Resistance Quartet
    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. Caroline Moorehead, a distinguished biographer, human rights journalist, and the author of Dancing to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Dancing to the Precipice

    The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era

    by Caroline Moorehead ...
    “[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.”—VogueFrom acclaimed biographer Caroline Moorhead comes Dancing to the Precipice, a sweeping chronicle of the remarkable life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin—“an astute, thoroughly engaging biography of a formidable woman” (Boston Globe ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Gellhorn

    A Twentieth-Century Life

    by Caroline Moorehead ...
    The first major biography of legendary war correspondent Martha Gellhorn, whose life provides a unique and thrilling perspective on world history in an extraordinary timeMartha Gellhorn's heroic career as a reporter brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant international conflict between the Spanish Civil War and the end of the Cold War. The preeminent-and often the only-female ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Village of Secrets

    Defying the Nazis in Vichy France

    by Caroline Moorehead ...
    Series Book 2 - The Resistance Quartet
    “Le Chambon has long been mythologized in France for the actions of its inhabitants. . . . But, as this riveting history shows, the story is more complex. . . . If the picture Moorhead paints is messier than the myth, this only serves to enhance the heroism of the main actors.”— The New YorkerFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the absorbing story of a French ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Mussolini's Daughter

    The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe

    by Caroline Moorehead ...
    A thrilling biography of Edda Mussolini—Benito Mussolini’s favorite daughter, one of the most influential women in 1930s Europe—and a heart-stopping account of the unraveling of the Fascist dream in Italy, from award-winning historian and author of the acclaimed Resistance Quartet, Caroline Moorehead“Reads like a page-turning thriller.”—BookPageEdda Mussolini was the Italian dictator Benito ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A House in the Mountains

    The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism

    by Caroline Moorehead ...
    Series Book 4 - The Resistance Quartet
    "Dramatic, heartbreaking and sweeping in scope." —Wall Street JournalThe acclaimed author of A Train in Winter returns with the "moving finale" (The Economist) of 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.**In the late summer of 1943, when Italy broke with the Germans ... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

    by Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead ...
    "A literary landmark" that spans the author's complex life and career—"Gellhorn's prose . . . is at its finest in the letter form" (Francine du Plessix Gray, The New York Times Book Review).Martha Gellhorn's reporting brought her to the front lines of virtually every significant conflict from the Spanish Civil War to the end of the cold war. While Gellhorn's wartime dispatches rank among the best ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Bold and Dangerous Family, A

    The Remarkable Story of an Italian Mother, Her Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Fascism

    by Caroline Moorehead ...
    Series Book 3 - The Resistance Quartet
    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 World Wars-a profile in courage that remains relevant today.Members of the cosmopolitan, cultural aristocracy ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Human Cargo

    A Journey Among Refugees

    by Caroline Moorehead ...
    An arresting portrait of the lives of today's refugees and a searching look into their futureThe 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 they may, quite literally, be allowed to live. In spite of the fact that refugees surround us-the latest ... Read more

    $20.19 USD