A Good Place to Hide: How One French Community Saved Thousands of Lives in World War II

by Peter Grose

Book Overview

This is the story of an isolated community in the upper reaches of the Loire Valley that conspired to save the lives of 3,500 Jews under the noses of the Germans and the soldiers of Vichy France. It is the story of a pacifist Protestant pastor who broke laws and defied orders to protect the lives of total strangers. It is the story of an eighteen-year-old Jewish boy from Nice who forged 5,000 sets of false identity papers to save other Jews and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1605986925
• ISBN13: 9781605986920
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"