Airey Neave (Books)

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Airey Neave was a British army officer, barrister, politician, and author. During World War II, Neave was the first British officer to successfully escape from the German prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle. For his wartime service, in 1948 the United States conferred the Bronze Star Medal upon him. He later became Conservative Member of Parliament for Abingdon. Neave was assassinated in 1979 in a car-bomb attack at the House of Commons, claimed by the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA).

Saturday at M.I.9

328 pages
12 hours of reading

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 dark days of German occupation and how, until the end of the war, thousands of ordinary men and women made their own contribution to the Allied victory by hiding and feeding men and guiding them to safety. There isn't a page in the book which isn't exciting in incident, wise in judgment, and absorbing through its human involvement.

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