The Bestselling Escape Memoir of the Second World War. Airey Neave recaptures the heroism and bravery of many men during the Second World War. Wounded and captured at Calais in May 1940, he was a persistent escaper, eventually being sent to the "escape-proof" Colditz Castle in Germany. But he was soon to become the first British officer to make a ...
The defense of Calais in May/June 1940 was a superb example of selfless courage and sacrifice. Sent by Churchill to divert the Germans from Dunkirk and so save the British Army from total annihilation and capture, 29th Brigade had orders not to evacuate or surrender. Airey Neave, later to be Margaret Thatcher's right hand man until his ...
The Author, who as a senior member of Mrs. Thatcher's Government was tragically assassinated by the IRA, had the most distinguished of war records. Wounded and taken prisoner in the desperate fighting at Calais in 1940, he became a compulsive escaper and the first one of the very few to make a 'home-run' from Colditz Castle. Thereafter he ...
Saturday at M.I.9 is the inside story of the underground escape lines in occupied North-West Europe which brought back to Britain over 4,000 Allied servicemen during World War Two. Airey Neave, who in the last two years of the war was the chief organiser at M.I.9 gives his own unique account. He describes how the escape lines began in the first ...
A Soldier's Battle, 1940... The defense of Calais in late May 1940 remains one of the most striking examples of selfless courage and sacrifice. Winston Churchill, in one of his first actions as Prime Minister, ordered 29 Brigade across the Channel as a desperate diversionary measure to save the British Expeditionary Force from wholesale ...
Description: *Helping and promoting global literacy since 1961* 224 pp. + 8 plates, hardcover, ex library, else text and binding clean and tight. read more
Edition: Stated First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown
Date Published: 1953
Description: 275 pages, frontis, three illustrations, map, map endpapers, 8vo, gray cloth. Front endpaper slight soil, ink name, very good; dust jacket good, spine faded, short tears, edgewear with slight loss, priced flap sain. Author was imprisoned and escaped from a German prison camp during World War II, served with the French Resistence and served papers on the directors of the Krupp works. Serving the antiquarian and used book world since 1980. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Zoological Society of London
Date Published: 1939
Description: Hardcover, ex-library with usual library marks, hinges split front and back, cloth coming off boards, poor condition but all pages present, no dust jacket. INV#K-1 Ex-Library/no dust jacket. read more
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pan
Date Published: 1955
Description: Very Good + + Pan True War / Escape Paperback Book No 329. This Book Is In Very Good Plus Plus Condition But Has Got A Reading Crease & Very Very Lightly Chipped Spine Both Corners On The Front Cover Have Very Very Tiny Corner Creases There Is A Corner Crease To The Top Of The Back Cover & A Tiny Corner Crease To The Bottom Of The Back Cover There Is A Date & A Name In Green Felt Tip On The Fly Leaf The Page edges Are Lightly Tanned & The Pages Are Lightly Tanned This Book Has Maps & Diagrams. ... read more
Publisher: The Zoological Society of London,
Date Published: 1939
Description: Linnaeus 1758 to the end of 1935. Vol. V: 1936-1945. Vol. VI: 1946-1955 (Eds: Edwards and Hopwood) 6 vols, 957+1025+1065+758+308+329p, hardbacks, VG ex-library copies. read more
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