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They Have Their Exits : the Best-Selling Escape Memoir of World War Two Cover Image Book Book

They Have Their Exits : the Best-Selling Escape Memoir of World War Two / Airey Neave.

Neave, Airey, 1916-1979 (Author).

Summary:

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 rejoined the fighting serving in France and Holland before becoming a member of the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremburg War Crimes trials. There he was to meet the most notorious members of the Nazi hierarchy as they faced justice and, in many cas.

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  • ISBN: 9781844154630
  • Physical Description: 179 pages ; 20 cm.
  • Publisher: Havertown : Pen and Sword, 2013.

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Subject: World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, British.
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Prisoners of war > Great Britain > Biography.
Prisoners of war > Germany > Biography.

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