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The Test of Courage: (A Biography of) Michel Thomas

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by Christopher Robbins


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  About the author

  Christopher Robbins is the author of six non-fiction books: The Test of Courage is the biography of Michel Thomas, concentration camp survivor, French Resistance fighter, and Nazi hunter; The Empress of Ireland is a memoir of his friendship with the Irish film director Brian Desmond Hurst, and won the Saga Award for Wit; the travelogue, In Search of Kazakhstan, was short-listed for the Author’s Club Travel Award in the UK, and the Geographica award in the US.

  The Ravens, a companion to Air America, charts the history of the men who flew in the secret air war in Laos.

  Christopher Robbins lives in London and France.

  Table of Contents

  Prologue

  I - ‘Everything seems hopeless: what are we to do?’

  II - The security of love

  III - Exile

  IV - The French Dachau

  V - Fighting back

  VI - Liberation

  VII - Aftermath

  VIII - Disconnected

  IX - Success

  X - Never-ending war

  Afterword

  Postscript by Michel Thomas

  Acknowledgements

  End notes

  Bibliography

  Copyright

  About the author

 

 

 


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