Clare Mulley

‘Cruel Crossing: Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees’, by Edward Stourton – review

issue 27 April 2013

‘One afternoon in September 1942,’ Edward Stourton opens this important and rewarding book, ‘a young man and a young woman could be seen sitting on the back steps of a farmhouse in south west France, looking up at the Pyrenees.’ It is like the first image in an album packed with snapshots set against this same glorious setting.

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