The TrainIt is May, 1940. The German invasion of Holland and Belgium has started. Marcel Fron, his wife, seven and a half months pregnant, and their daughter join the general stampede for trains running south from the small frontier town of Fumay. In the ensuing chaos, he is separated from the rest of his family, and it is through his eyes that we see what happens on the train, as it trundles slowly on, away from the oncoming Panzer divisions and

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