Edward Stourton
Auteur de Cruel crossing: escaping Hitler across the Pyrenees
A propos de l'auteur
Edward Stourton was a founder of Britain's Channel 4 News and served as Channel 4's Washington correspondent.
Œuvres de Edward Stourton
It's a PC World: What it Means to Live in a Land Gone Politically Correct: What It Means to Live in a World Gone… (2008) 14 exemplaires
Today: A History of our World through 60 years of Conversations & Controversies (2019) 8 exemplaires
Sunday: A History of Religious Affairs through 50 Years of Conversations and Controversies (2023) 2 exemplaires
John Paul 11 - Man of History 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Relations
- Stourton, Ivo (son)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 18
- Membres
- 222
- Popularité
- #100,929
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 35
- Langues
- 2
His book doesn't disappoint. He manages the wealth of material he's discovered about French, Belgians, British, Americans all involved in the complicated and dangerous process of getting Jews, crashed airmen, escaped prisoners, and above all young Frenchmen escaping the dreaded enforced STO enforced labour programme of the Vichy Government in WWII. He describes the extreme difficulties of crossing the stark and inhospitable higher reaches of the Pyrenees, and brings to life many of the stories of passeurs and escapees. There are so many threads to bring together, so many aspects to this story, but Stourton makes an appealing narrative of the whole. This book is immensely readable, endlessly fascinating, and brings a difficult period of French history to light in a most approachable manner.… (plus d'informations)