books by Airey Neave (flames action calais)

books by Airey Neave

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Airey Neave

Grafton, 1989

Amazing
After his experiences at Dunkirk and in "They Have Their Exits" about his escape from Colditz, Airey Neave worked at MI9 in a small section dedicated to supporting escape lines run by resistance groups in Europe. The book chronicles the history of several escape lines to Britain (principally used by downed airmen), most of which ended in the arrest of the principles and many other people by the ...

FLAMES OF CALAIS: A Soldier's Battle 1940
Airey Neave (DSO OBE MC)

Pen and Sword, 2003

The defense of Calais in May/June 1940 was a superb example of selfless courage and sacrifice. Sent by Churchill to divert the Germans from Dunkirk and so save the British Army from total annihilation and capture, 29 Brigade had orders not to evacuate or surrender. Airey Neave, later to be Margaret Thatcher's right hand man until his assassination in 1979, was one of those who fought, and was wounded and captured there

THEY HAVE THEIR EXITS: A Classic World War Two Memoir of Action and Escape
Airey Neave (DSO OBE MC)

Pen and Sword, 2002

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 ...