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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This is the first inside story of the underground escape lines in occupied North-West Europe which brought back to Britain over 4000 Allied servicemen during the Second World War. It is not an official history. Many details will remain secret for a long time but Airey Neave who in the last two years of 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 hours of German occupation and how thousands of ordinary people made their own contribution to Allied victory by hiding and feeding men and guiding them to safety. The book covers the whole range of escape operations by land sea and air. It shows how the leaders in occupied territory established routes over the Spanish frontier after Dunkirk and how they were reinforced and extended despite the Gestapo. Over 500 people were executed or died in concentration camps for this work. Some lines were broken and mended many times after mass arrests but still continued in operation. Altogether 3000 Allied airmen shot down in occupied territory of whom half were Americans reached safety before the Allied invasion of Normandy. (SP)