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They Have Their Exits: The Best Selling Escape Memoir of World War Two

By Neave , Airey

Book information

Publisher
Pen and Sword
Year
2016
ISBN
1781594724, 9781781594728, 0-85052-865-8
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
2 MB (2140046 bytes)
Edition
Aug-2013
Pages
192\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00

Description

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 cases, death. For the quality of its writing and the breadth of its author's experiences, They Have Their Exits is arguably the finest memoir to emerge from the Second World War, and one for which the sobriquet 'classic' seems wholly inadequate

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