{"title":"Books by Heather Dune Macadam","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780806541440","title":"Star Crossed","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor readers of \u003ci\u003eThe Nightingale\u003c\/i\u003e by Kristin Hannah who are hungry for a non-fiction account of Nazi-occupied Paris, \u003ci\u003eStar Crossed \u003c\/i\u003eis an epic true story of love and resistance during WWII from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003e999. \u003c\/i\u003ePart historical portrait of life during the Occupation, part valentine to The City of Light and the resilience of its people, this true love story follows the romance between the Romeo and Juliet of war-torn Paris – a Catholic Resistance fighter and a Holocaust victim who meet at the famous Café Flore before war, prejudice, and disapproving families set them on divergent and tragically inevitable paths.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“What a beautiful, heartbreaking story.” \u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003eErica Robuck, National Bestselling Author of \u003ci\u003eSisters of Night and Fog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Paris, 1940. The City of Light has fallen under German occupation. Among patriotic Parisians, the pursuit of art, culture, and jazz has become a bold act of defiance. So has forbidden love for talented and spirited Jewish teenager Annette Zelman, a student at the Beaux-Arts, and dashing young Catholic poet Jean Jausion. Despite their devout families’ vehement opposition, the young couple finds acceptance at the famed Café de Flore, whose habitues includeSimone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso, Django Reinhardt, and other luminaries of the Latin Quarter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor a time, Annette and Jean feel they have eluded the brute might of the relentless Nazis -- and more immediately, their parents’ threats and demands. But as restrictions on the Jewish community escalate to arrests and deportations, the maleficent forces gathering around the young lovers set them on divergent and tragically inevitable paths.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawn from never-before-published family letters and other treasures, as well as archival sources and exclusive interviews, Star-Crossed offers us precious insight into the Holocaust and the lives French people bravely led under the Hitler regime. This breathtaking true story of beauty, art, liberation, and the transformative power of love resonates with an intimate story of undying devotion, seen through the prism of history.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204073521330,"sku":"9780806541440","price":20.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780806541440.jpg?v=1786015993"},{"product_id":"9781529329353","title":"The Nine Hundred","description":"\u003cp\u003eA remarkable story of courage in the face of injustice and brutality in the Second World War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Books such as this are essential: they remind modern readers of events that should never be forgotten' - Caroline Moorehead \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow, 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Nine Hundred\u003c\/i\u003e sheds crucial light on an overlooked moment in the Holocaust, and in women's history in the twentieth century.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312574968181,"sku":"9781529329353","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529329353_be896260-70b4-403d-85d8-e0d2e21cda9b.jpg?v=1786022253"},{"product_id":"renas-promise","title":"Rena's Promise","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn expanded  edition of the powerful memoir about two sisters' determination to  survive during the Holocaust featuring new and never before revealed  information about the first transport of women to Auschwitz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn  March 1942, Rena Kornreich and 997 other young women were rounded up  and forced onto the first Jewish transport of women to Auschwitz. Soon  after, Rena was reunited with her sister Danka at the camp, beginning a  story of love and courage that would last three years and forty-one  days. From smuggling bread for their friends to narrowly escaping the  ever-present threats that loomed at every turn, the compelling events in  \u003ci\u003eRena’s Promise\u003c\/i\u003e remind us that humanity and hope can survive inordinate brutality.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57680272392565,"sku":"9780807026397","price":23.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780807026397.jpg?v=1792423642"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-heather-dune-macadam.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}