The Greatest Escape

Peter Grose

During the occupation of France in WWII the villages around Le Chambon-sur-Lignon pulled off an astonishing and largely unknown feat. Risking everything they underwent a long-running battle of nerves and daring to hide 5000 men women and children 3500 of them Jews from the Nazis and their Vichy stooges. Despite the danger a whole community rallied together from the pacifist pastor who defied orders to the glamorous female agent with a wooden leg from the 18-year-old master forger to the schoolgirl who ran suitcases stuffed with money for the Resistance.

Told using first-hand testimonies of many of the survivors and face-to-face interviews conducted by the author A Good Place to Hide is the thrilling story of ordinary people who thwarted the Nazis and sheltered strangers in desperate need.

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