Caroline Moorehead

Relato histórico apasionante sobre la vida en la corte de Luis XVI hasta la Revolución Francesa. • Basado en los diarios de una cortesana rebelde, Lucie de la Tour du Pin, que relata el día a día de la corte con gran perspicacia y detalle.

El escalofriante relato de las vicisitudes de un grupo de mujeres francesas en Auschwitz Enero de 1943, Francia. Los ocupantes nazis aplican por primera vez a un grupo de mujeres su política de Noch

Born in Paris 1893, a precocious and tough Freya Stark spent her childhood wondering across Europe, speaking three languages by the time she was five. She became one of the twentieth-centurys most remarkable and inspirational women. Renowned for her flamboyant and unorthodox behaviour, Freya was also self-disciplined, courageous and remained fearlessly independent throughout her life.As an explorer she was unconventional, always travelling alone, without money or support. Her expeditions in Persia and the Hadhramaut during the thirties established her reputation not only as a great traveller and writer, but also as a geographer, historian and archaeologist.Caroline Moorehead brilliantly captures Freyas extraordinary and eventful life that was tempered by a constant struggle against ill health and loneliness, in this compelling biography.

Iris Origo was one of the twentieth centurys 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 derelict stretch of the beautiful Val dOrcia valley in Tuscany and created an estate that thrives to this day. During World War II they sided firmly with the Allies, taking considerable risks in protecting children and sheltering partisans and Iriss diary from that time, War in Val dOrcia, is now considered a modern classic. Caroline Moorehead has drawn on many previously unpublished letters, diaries, and papers to write the definitive biography of a very remarkable woman.

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A thrilling biography of Benito Mussolinis favourite daughter, and a heart-stopping account of the unravelling of the Fascist dream in ItalyEngrossing... Moorehead has a spirited turn of phrase, a keen eye for the telling detail and pungent quote, and a gift for marshaling complex material Jenny Uglow, New York Times Book ReviewEdda Mussolini was Benitos favourite daughter: spoilt, venal and uneducated but also clever, brave, and ultimately loyal. She was her fathers confidante during the 20 years of Fascist rule and married Foreign Secretary Galeazzo Ciano, making them the most celebrated couple in Roman fascist society.Their fortunes turned in 1943, when Ciano voted against Mussolini in a plot to bring him down. In a dramatic story that takes in hidden diaries, her fathers fall and her husbands execution, we come to know a complicated, bold and determined woman who emerges not just as a witness but as a key player in some of the twentieth centurys defining moments.Vividly told, engrossing history CLARE MULLEY, author of The Women Who Flew for HitlerPrecise, empathic . . . a profoundly satisfying, albeit wistful, read and . . . a worryingly relevant oneGUARDIAN

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP FIVE BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014From the author of the New York Times bestseller A Train in Winter comes the extraordinary story of a French village that helped save thousands who were pursued by the Gestapo during World War II.High up in the mountains of the southern Massif Central in France lies a cluster of tiny, remote villages united by a long and particular history. During the Nazi occupation, the inhabitants of the Plateau Vivarais Lignon saved several thousand people from the concentration camps. As the victims of Nazi persecution flooded in resisters, freemasons, communists and Jews, many of them children the villagers united to keep them safe. The story of why and how these villages came to save so many people has never been fully told. But several of the remarkable architects of the mission are still alive, as are a number of those they saved. Caroline Moorehead has sought out and interviewed many of the people involved in this extraordinary undertaking, and brings us their unforgettable testimonies. It is a story of courage and determination, of a small number of heroic individuals who risked their lives to save others, and of what can be done when people come together to oppose tyranny.

Discover the life of one of the twentieth centurys most significant and notorious war correspondents, and the third wife of Ernest Hemingway.Martha Gellhorns journalism tracks many of the flashpoints of the twentieth century; as a young woman she witnessed the suffering of the American Depression and risked her life in the Spanish Civil War. Her dispatches from the front made her a legend, yet her private life was often messy and volcanic. Her determination to be a war correspondent - and her conspicuous success - contributed to the breakdown of her infamously stormy marriage to Ernest Hemingway. In this mesmerising biography of a life that spanned the twentieth century, Moorehead reveals how passionately Martha fought against injustice, and how determined she was to catch the human story.A deeply sympathetic portrait... [it shows] an overwhelming sense of what it is to be humanDaily Telegraph

A new edition of this seminal book, now with a new introduction by the author on the current crisisHow can society cope with the diaspora of the twenty-first century? Is there a difference between good asylum seekers and bad economic migrants? What happens to those whose applications are turned down?Caroline Moorehead has visited war zones, camps and prisons from Guinea and Afghanistan to Australia and Italy. She has interviewed emigration officials and members of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees while investigating the fates of the millions of people currently displaced from their homes. Human Cargo is both a remarkable exploration into the current crisis and a celebration of the courage of ordinary people.

Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleons rule, Lucie survived extraordinary times with great spirit. She recorded people, politics and intrigue, alongside the intriguing minutia of everyday life: food, work, illness, children, manners and clothes. Caroline Mooreheads richly novelistic biography sets Lucy and her dairies in their wider context, illuminating a remarkable period of history.Dancing to the Precipice was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2009.

Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the women of the Italian Resistance MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMESThe extraordinary story of the courageous women who spearheaded the Italian Resistance during the Second World WarIn the late summer of 1943, in the midst of German occupation, the Italian Resistance was born. Ada, Frida, Silvia and Bianca were four young women who signed up. Living in the mountains surrounding Turin their contribution was invaluable. They carried messages and weapons, provided safe houses and took prisoners. As thousands of Italians rose up, they fought to liberate their country.With its corruption, greed and anti-Semitism, the fall of Fascist Italy was unrelentingly violent, but for the partisan women it was also a time of camaraderie and equality, pride and optimism. Through the stories of these four exceptional women, the resolve, tenacity and, above all, courage of the Italian Resistance is laid bare. A Spectator Book of the Year

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDMussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him: arson, murder, destruction of homes and offices, bribes and intimidation. His opponents including editors, union representatives, lawyers and judges were beaten into submission. But the tide turned in 1924 when his assassins went too far, horror spread across Italy, and antifascist resistance was born. Among those whose disgust hardened into bold and uncompromising resistance was a family from Florence: Amelia, Carlo and Nello Rosselli. Caroline Moorehead draws readers into the lives of this remarkable family their loves, their loyalties, their laughter and their ultimate sacrifice.

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 village that helped save thousands hunted by the Gestapo during World War IItold in full for the first time.Le Chambon-sur-Lignon is a small village of scattered houses high in the mountains of the Ardeche, one of the most remote and inaccessible parts of Eastern France. During the Second World War, the inhabitants of this tiny mountain village and its parishes saved thousands wanted by the Gestapo: resisters, freemasons, communists, OSS and SOE agents, and Jews. Many of those they protected were orphaned children and babies whose parents had been deported to concentration camps.With unprecedented access to newly opened archives in France, Britain, and Germany, and interviews with some of the villagers from the period who are still alive, Caroline Moorehead paints an inspiring portrait of courage and determination: of what was accomplished when a small group of people banded together to oppose their Nazi occupiers. A thrilling and atmospheric tale of silence and complicity, Village of Secrets reveals how every one of the inhabitants of Chambon remained silent in a country infamous for collaboration. Yet it is also a story about mythmaking, and the fallibility of memory.A major contribution to WWII history, illustrated with black-and-white photos, Village of Secrets sets the record straight about the events in Chambon, and pays tribute to a group of heroic individuals, most of them women, for whom saving others became more important than their own lives.This riveting work of narrative history goes beyond the myth of Le Chambon to reveal:Righteous Among the Nations: How the tiny village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon became the only community collectively honored for saving Jews during the Holocaust. Secret History: The untold story of how this rescue network saved not only Jews, but also freemasons, communists, and Allied agents hunted by the Gestapo. Heroic Women of the Resistance: An inspiring portrait of the ordinary women who formed the backbone of the villages defiance in a country infamous for collaboration. Dispelling the Myth: Why the true story of Le Chambon is more complex, messy, and ultimately more heroic than the long-held legend. Meticulous Research: Based on unprecedented access to newly opened archives and gripping firsthand interviews with the last living survivors.

A moving and extraordinary book about courage and survival, friendship and endurance a portrait of ordinary women who faced the horror of the holocaust together.On an icy morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz the only train, in the four years of German occupation, to take women of the resistance to a death camp. Of the group, only 49 survivors would return to France. Here is the story of these women told for the first time. A Train in Winter is a portrait of ordinary people, of their bravery and endurance, and of the friendships that kept so many of them alive.A story of stunning courage, generosity and hope Mail on SundaySerious and heartfelt...profound Sunday Times

As much a history of the deeply crooked culture of Italian politics as it is a vivid biography of one manSUNDAY TIMESFascinatingSPECTATORVivid and disturbing but utterly compellingDAILY MAILCorruption, sleaze and violence were woven into the fabric of twentieth-century Sicilian life, as the Mafia rose to dominance. This is the story of one man who stood in opposition.In 1986, the largest Mafia trial in Italys history took place in Sicily: 471 men and 4 women took the stand, accused of horrific crimes. Sitting in the gallery was Leonardo Sciascia. One of the greatest European writers of the twentieth century, he had published the first Mafia novel, The Day of the Owl, in 1961, and was widely seen by Italians as a true moral figure in a country where corruption had seeped into every corner of public and private life.Sciascia had come of age as the Mafia grew to prominence across Sicily. Witnessing the scale of corruption and violence, Sciascia predicted it would soon spread north, and he was right: by the 1980s, the Mafia had infiltrated every level of Italian politics and grown into an international, highly successful business.In A Sicilian Man, prize-winning historian and biographer Caroline Moorehead charts Sciascias life against the rise of the Mafia, and lays out the thrilling and devastating struggle that ensued for Italys soul.Magnificent and deeply affecting PHILIP HENSHERVivid and knowledgeable... This feels like the book [Moorehead] was destined to write LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT

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 timea 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 the Precipice and Human Cargo, brings to life an extraordinary story that readers of Mitchell Zuckoffs Lost in Shangri-La, Erik Larsons In the Garden of Beasts, and Laura Hillenbrands Unbroken will find an essential addition to our retelling of the history of World War IIa riveting, rediscovered story of courageous women who sacrificed everything to combat the march of evil across the world.How did ordinary women become heroes, and how did their bonds of friendship become their greatest weapon?Le Convoi des 31000: The full story of the only convoy to transport women of the French Resistance to the Nazi death camps, a journey into the heart of terror. A Testament to Friendship: Discover how the power of friendship became a shield against despair, as these women shared their rations, their secrets, and their strength to keep one another alive. Life in Occupied France: Experience the tense, clandestine world of Paris under Nazi rule, where every meeting was a risk and every stranger a potential enemy or ally. Essential Womens History: A landmark account that shines a light on the vital, often overlooked, role of women in World War II, perfect for readers of Erik Larson and Laura Hillenbrand.

El caso de Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998) supone un buen ejemplo del papel secundario que siempre se ha otorgado a la mujer. Y es que, en lugar de por su propia obra, se la conoce por haber sido esposa de Ernest Hemingway. Sin embargo, esta norteamericana dedicó más de medio siglo a trabajar como reportera de guerra, ensayista y autora de novelas y relatos. Martha Gellhorn fue testigo de casi todos los conflictos que sacudieron al mundo en los últimos cien años -Guerra Civil española, Segunda Guerra Mundial, Vietnam, Guerra de los Seis Días...-, además de otras realidades dramáticas como la Depresión o la situación de los Meninhos da Rua. Viajera incansable, sincera hasta la herida, sus puntos de vista no siempre resultaron cómodos para sus compatriotas, pero supo mantener intacta su independencia, que más de una vez se vistió de soledad. Esta magnífica biografía retrata la vida de una mujer adelantada a su época, contradictoria y apasionada, que, días antes de su viaje a Vietnam, a mediados de la década de 1960, dijo: "Quiero escribir sobre los vietnamitas, sobre los civiles; todos olvidan que son personas. Modestamente, pretendo darles un rostro, para que sepamos a quién estamos aniquilando".

A remarkable story of courage in the face of injustice and brutality in the Second World War Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten - Caroline Moorehead On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, they were eager to report for government service.That is not what happened. The young women - many of them teenagers - were sent on their way to Auschwitz. Their government paid 500 Reichsmarks (about 160) apiece for the Nazis to take them as cheap, forced labour. Of those 999 innocent deportees, only a few would survive.The facts of the first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz are little known, yet profoundly relevant today. These were not resistance fighters or prisoners of war. There were no men among them. Sent to almost certain death, the young women were rendered powerless and treated as insignificant not only because they were Jewish - but also because they were young women.Now, for the first time, acclaimed author Heather Dune Macadam reveals their poignant stories. Drawing on extensive interviews with survivors, and consulting with historians, witnesses, and relatives of those first deportees, The Nine Hundred sheds crucial light on an overlooked moment in the Holocaust, and in womens history in the twentieth century.

[A] remarkable biography.Moorehead deftly wields periods detailto tell the story of a captivating woman who kept her sense of self amid the vicissitudes of politics.Vogue From acclaimed biographer Caroline Moorhead comes Dancing to the Precipice, a sweeping chronicle of the remarkable life of Lucie de la Tour du Pinan astute, thoroughly engaging biography of a formidable woman (Boston Globe) who, over the span of some 80 years, was witness to, and often a participant in the major social upheavals of eighteenth-century French history.This definitive historical biography includes:A firsthand look at the Ancien Regime: Experience the glittering, corrupt court of Louis XVI in its final days before being consumed by revolution. Escape from The Terror: Follow Lucies harrowing flight from the guillotine, which claimed many of her friends and family, and her surprising reinvention as a farmer in fledgling America. An Unflinching Eyewitness Account: An intimate chronicle of resilience through the Napoleonic era and the Bourbon Restoration, told with shrewdness, humor, and remarkable recall. A Whos Who of History: Walk the halls of power alongside a woman who knew everyone, from Talleyrand and Lafayette to the Empress Josephine herself.