The People on the Beach (Paperback)
Whitehouse, Rosie (Author)
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One summer's night in 1946, over 1000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden and fought in forests and endured death marches - now they were taking on the Royal Navy, running the British blockade of Palestine. From Eastern Europe to Israel via Germany and Italy, Rosie Whitehouse follows in the footsteps of those secret passengers, uncovering their extraordinary stories - some told for the first time. Who were those people on the beach? Where and what had they come from, and how had they survived? Why, after being liberated,...
ISBN (SKU)
9781805261629
Pages
384
Dimensions
198x129
Imprint
Hurst & Company
Published
05, December, 2024
Genres
History
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