A Good Place To Hide Av Peter Grose

<p>During the occupation of France in WWII the villages around Le Chambon-sur-Lignon pulled off an astonishing and largely unknown feat. Risking everything, they underwent a long-running battle of nerves and daring to hide 5,000 men, women and children, 3,500 of them Jews, from the Nazis and their Vichy stooges. Despite the danger, a whole community rallied together, from the pacifist pastor who defied orders to the glamorous female agent with a wooden leg, from the 18-year-old master forger to the schoolgirl who ran suitcases stuffed with money for the Resistance.<br><br>Told using first-hand testimonies of many of the survivors and face-to-face interviews conducted by the author,<i> A Good Place to Hide</i> is the thrilling story of ordinary people who thwarted the Nazis and sheltered strangers in desperate need.</p>