THE FRAGILE MIRACLE OF MARTIN GRAY - David Douglas Duncan
Martin Gray fought as a child street guerilla against the Nazi invaders of Warsaw. Every member of his family, except for a grandmother and an uncle who were living safely in New York, died in the ghetto, or in gas chambers of Treblinka - from which he escaped. Emigrating to america after the war, he married a luminous Dutch girl, then moved to a farmhouse in southern France to raise another family, while also hoping to save his failing vision. He had lost one eye in hand-to-hand combat with a German soldier. One Saturday afternoonn, a forest fire fed by raging winds swept ropund the Gray's hilltop. Dina Gray and her four children perished while attempting to flee.
Martin again survived. He later wrote For Those I Loved, a book which became an international bestseller. He donated all royalties to a fund promoting fire prevention, and to a cildren's tree-planting program in France. In Paris, on his way to meet the Prime Minister of the Republic, he was struck from his blind side by a speeding car, which left him temporarily semi-paralysed and with lifelong spinal damage. Press reports told of his being hospitalised ; that night theives broke into his empty hilltop home - miraculously untouched by fire - and ransacked it.
A handful of years passed, despite other disasters, Martin never lost faith in his fellow man - nor his love for the slowly healing hilltops surrounding his home, to which he always returned and where, in the depths of his anguish, he found these words. This is a story of courage and tenacity…
Publié par Abbeville Press, 1979
96 pages, bon état
ISBN 9780896590731
Martin Gray fought as a child street guerilla against the Nazi invaders of Warsaw. Every member of his family, except for a grandmother and an uncle who were living safely in New York, died in the ghetto, or in gas chambers of Treblinka - from which he escaped. Emigrating to america after the war, he married a luminous Dutch girl, then moved to a farmhouse in southern France to raise another family, while also hoping to save his failing vision. He had lost one eye in hand-to-hand combat with a German soldier. One Saturday afternoonn, a forest fire fed by raging winds swept ropund the Gray's hilltop. Dina Gray and her four children perished while attempting to flee.
Martin again survived. He later wrote For Those I Loved, a book which became an international bestseller. He donated all royalties to a fund promoting fire prevention, and to a cildren's tree-planting program in France. In Paris, on his way to meet the Prime Minister of the Republic, he was struck from his blind side by a speeding car, which left him temporarily semi-paralysed and with lifelong spinal damage. Press reports told of his being hospitalised ; that night theives broke into his empty hilltop home - miraculously untouched by fire - and ransacked it.
A handful of years passed, despite other disasters, Martin never lost faith in his fellow man - nor his love for the slowly healing hilltops surrounding his home, to which he always returned and where, in the depths of his anguish, he found these words. This is a story of courage and tenacity…
Publié par Abbeville Press, 1979
96 pages, bon état
ISBN 9780896590731
Martin Gray fought as a child street guerilla against the Nazi invaders of Warsaw. Every member of his family, except for a grandmother and an uncle who were living safely in New York, died in the ghetto, or in gas chambers of Treblinka - from which he escaped. Emigrating to america after the war, he married a luminous Dutch girl, then moved to a farmhouse in southern France to raise another family, while also hoping to save his failing vision. He had lost one eye in hand-to-hand combat with a German soldier. One Saturday afternoonn, a forest fire fed by raging winds swept ropund the Gray's hilltop. Dina Gray and her four children perished while attempting to flee.
Martin again survived. He later wrote For Those I Loved, a book which became an international bestseller. He donated all royalties to a fund promoting fire prevention, and to a cildren's tree-planting program in France. In Paris, on his way to meet the Prime Minister of the Republic, he was struck from his blind side by a speeding car, which left him temporarily semi-paralysed and with lifelong spinal damage. Press reports told of his being hospitalised ; that night theives broke into his empty hilltop home - miraculously untouched by fire - and ransacked it.
A handful of years passed, despite other disasters, Martin never lost faith in his fellow man - nor his love for the slowly healing hilltops surrounding his home, to which he always returned and where, in the depths of his anguish, he found these words. This is a story of courage and tenacity…
Publié par Abbeville Press, 1979
96 pages, bon état
ISBN 9780896590731
