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Airey Neave DSO OBE MC

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Description:In the summer of 1940, in the last stand before Dunkirk, Second Lieutenant Airey Neave of the Royal Artillery fell into German hands. As he awaited transport to one of General Keitel's prison camps, a heavy touring car rolled in a cloud of dust past the British wounded. "The Reichsmarchall - our Hermann," said an excited German. But Second Lieutenant Airey Neave was too weak to care that this was Goering, bound for Calais to inspect preparations for the invasion of England....In October of 1945, on a sunlit autumn afternoon, Major Airey Neave served on Keitel, prisoner at Nuremberg, a copy of his indictment. In the next sell sat a fat, decayed voluptuary in grey - Hermann Goering. The wheel had turned full circle.Between these two episodes in Airey Neave's career lies a story of high adventure as startling as any to come out of World War II. "Escape," writes Airey Neave, " is not only a technique but a philosophy. The real escaper is more than a man with compass, maps, papers, disguise, and a plan. He has an inner confidence, a serenity of spirit which makes him a Pilgrim."And Airey Neave was, from the very instant of his capture, a real escaper. He tried so doggedly to escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland that he was transferred to Colditz, an "escape-proof" fortress reserved for chronic fugitives. But even Colditz has and "exit," and Airey Neave became the first man to find it. He fled to Switzerland, through France, across the Pyrenees to Gibraltar - and freedom.Soon he was back on the continent, helping other escapers, working with the French Resistance to rescue Allied airmen downed in enemy territory. When the Arnhem break-through failed he took a leading part in the operations to save the survivors of the First Airborne Army. And when defeat had come to the last scarecrow remnants of Hitler's Reich, it was Airey Neave who entered the vast ruins of Krupp works at Essen to arrest the directors; and it was he who confronted the notorious German generals, admirals, and politicians in their prison cells and in their trial for crimes against humanity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with They Have Their Exits: The Best-Selling Escape Memoir of World War Two (Pen & Sword Military Classics). To get started finding They Have Their Exits: The Best-Selling Escape Memoir of World War Two (Pen & Sword Military Classics), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In the summer of 1940, in the last stand before Dunkirk, Second Lieutenant Airey Neave of the Royal Artillery fell into German hands. As he awaited transport to one of General Keitel's prison camps, a heavy touring car rolled in a cloud of dust past the British wounded. "The Reichsmarchall - our Hermann," said an excited German. But Second Lieutenant Airey Neave was too weak to care that this was Goering, bound for Calais to inspect preparations for the invasion of England....In October of 1945, on a sunlit autumn afternoon, Major Airey Neave served on Keitel, prisoner at Nuremberg, a copy of his indictment. In the next sell sat a fat, decayed voluptuary in grey - Hermann Goering. The wheel had turned full circle.Between these two episodes in Airey Neave's career lies a story of high adventure as startling as any to come out of World War II. "Escape," writes Airey Neave, " is not only a technique but a philosophy. The real escaper is more than a man with compass, maps, papers, disguise, and a plan. He has an inner confidence, a serenity of spirit which makes him a Pilgrim."And Airey Neave was, from the very instant of his capture, a real escaper. He tried so doggedly to escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland that he was transferred to Colditz, an "escape-proof" fortress reserved for chronic fugitives. But even Colditz has and "exit," and Airey Neave became the first man to find it. He fled to Switzerland, through France, across the Pyrenees to Gibraltar - and freedom.Soon he was back on the continent, helping other escapers, working with the French Resistance to rescue Allied airmen downed in enemy territory. When the Arnhem break-through failed he took a leading part in the operations to save the survivors of the First Airborne Army. And when defeat had come to the last scarecrow remnants of Hitler's Reich, it was Airey Neave who entered the vast ruins of Krupp works at Essen to arrest the directors; and it was he who confronted the notorious German generals, admirals, and politicians in their prison cells and in their trial for crimes against humanity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with They Have Their Exits: The Best-Selling Escape Memoir of World War Two (Pen & Sword Military Classics). To get started finding They Have Their Exits: The Best-Selling Escape Memoir of World War Two (Pen & Sword Military Classics), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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They Have Their Exits: The Best-Selling Escape Memoir of World War Two (Pen & Sword Military Classics)

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