If This Is A Woman

If This Is A WomanWinner of the Longman History Today Book Prize: A 'profoundly moving chronicle' (Observer) that tells the story of Ravensbrck, the only concentration camp designed specifically for women, using new testimony from survivors. On a sunny morning in May 1939, a phalanx of 800 womenhousewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostituteswere marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, driven on past a shining lake, then herded through giant