Caroline Moorehead's 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.
His opponents – including editors, union representatives, lawyers and judges – were beaten into submission. Caroline Moorehead draws readers into the lives of this remarkable family – their loves, their loyalties, their laughter and their ultimate sacrifice.
On an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, a group of 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo... Læs mere
During the Nazi occupation, the inhabitants of the Plateau Vivarais Lignon saved several thousand people from the concentration camps. This book... Læs mere
A perennially interesting story, that always captures the imagination.
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?