A Bag of Marbles

About this book

Paris 1941: The Nazis arrive... the hunt for the Jews begins... Armed only with their knapsacks 50 francs and unlimited nerve ten-year-old Joseph Joffo and his twelve-year-old brother Maurice set out one night on a harrowing journey to elude the Nazi death machine. It would take them three incredible years and lead them across the whole of France - stealing scrounging living by their wits danger always a hairbreadth behind them. Then one day in Nice their luck ran out. Their Nazi tormentors pinned them down. Jo an Maurice found themselves in Gestapo headquarters facing the greatest test of their lives.