The Comet Escape Line
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The Comet Escape Line
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Author : Alexander Stilwell
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2024-09-19
The Comet Escape Line written by Alexander Stilwell and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-19 with History categories.
The Comet Escape Line tells the story of the most successful escape line of the Second World War. Inspired by the English nurse Edith Cavell, who helped Allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium in the First World War, Andrée de Jongh and a group of young Belgian friends conceived an audacious plan to smuggle downed Allied airmen and other evaders from Belgium, through France and over to neutral Spain. Many incredible escapes followed from safe houses in Brussels, making hazardous train journeys through France, or navigating goat paths through the Pyrenees, evading German and Spanish border patrols. By 1945, the line had aided hundreds of evaders and was a vital part of the escape and evasion picture of the Second World War. In The Comet Escape Line, Alexander Stilwell reveals the personalities and motives of the Comet line founders and the British intelligence organisation that supported it, investigates the Gestapo campaign to destroy it and explores the actions of the Nazi collaborators who infiltrated it. Above all, this is the story of the incredibly brave civilians who risked everything to help the Allied cause.
The Escape Line
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Author : Megan Koreman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
The Escape Line written by Megan Koreman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with History categories.
The gripping account of ordinary men and women who risked their lives in Nazi-occupied Western Europe to save others.
The Invisible Lifeline Unraveling The Threads Of Europe S Underground Escape Lines
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Author : Pasquale De Marco
language : en
Publisher: Pasquale De Marco
Release Date : 2025-04-05
The Invisible Lifeline Unraveling The Threads Of Europe S Underground Escape Lines written by Pasquale De Marco and has been published by Pasquale De Marco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-05 with History categories.
In the treacherous landscape of Nazi-occupied Europe, a lifeline emerged from the depths of despair: the underground escape lines. The Invisible Lifeline: Unraveling the Threads of Europe's Underground Escape Lines is a gripping narrative that delves into the extraordinary world of these clandestine networks, shedding light on the extraordinary efforts of those who risked their lives to help others escape tyranny. At the heart of this story lies M.I.9, the British intelligence agency tasked with coordinating escape and evasion operations across Europe. Operating in the shadows, M.I.9 agents worked tirelessly to establish escape routes, secure safe houses, and forge connections with resistance movements. Their work was fraught with danger, as they faced constant surveillance, betrayal, and the ever-present threat of capture and execution. The escape lines themselves were a testament to human ingenuity and resilience. They stretched across borders, connecting cities, towns, and villages, forming a web of secret passageways and hidden routes. Escapees, often aided by local guides and resistance fighters, embarked on perilous journeys, evading capture and navigating treacherous terrain, all with the hope of reaching neutral territory and freedom. The Invisible Lifeline is more than just a historical account; it is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity. It is a story of courage, sacrifice, and the unwavering belief in the power of freedom. As we delve into the hidden world of the underground escape lines, we gain a deeper understanding of the extraordinary lengths to which people will go to regain their liberty. This book is a testament to the indomitable spirit of those who dared to defy the darkness. Their stories serve as a powerful reminder of the human cost of war and the enduring legacy of those who fought for freedom. If you like this book, write a review!
The Shelburne Escape Line
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Author : Réanne Hemingway-Douglass
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2020-01-31
The Shelburne Escape Line written by Réanne Hemingway-Douglass and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-31 with History categories.
An account of WWII rescues that "pays tribute to the audacity and heroism of the men and women of the French Resistance and Allied military personnel" (Warship World). The Shelburne was one of the later escape lines that operated within Nazi-occupied Europe. It was established at the end of 1943 by two agents who worked for MI-9, the London-based military intelligence agency responsible for providing assistance to Allied servicemen stranded behind enemy lines. Working with the French Resistance, these agents arranged for groups of Allied airmen to be taken from "safe houses" in Paris to Brittany, where a Royal Navy motor gunboat picked them up from a secluded beach and delivered them back to England. Eight audacious evacuation operations were conducted between January and August, 1944, without the Shelburne Line ever being infiltrated by the Gestapo. Aspects of the Shelburne story have been told previously in memoirs by several of the participants, including the late MP Airey Neave, who was an MI-9 operative. However, Hemingway-Douglass expands the story to include recollections of some of the local Breton people who were involved with the Line. The second half of the book comprises personal stories of airmen and other individuals who were affiliated with the Shelburne Line or were otherwise caught up in the war in France. A lifelong Francophile, Hemingway-Douglass took eight years to research and write the book. She describes it as a labor of love that pays tribute to the heroism and courage of "ordinary" people, while reinforcing the fact that war touches everybody. "Fascinating . . . A must read for military and espionage enthusiasts." —The Bulletin (Military Historical Society)
Escape From Hitler S Reich
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Author : Martin W Bowman
language : en
Publisher: Air World
Release Date : 2024-12-30
Escape From Hitler S Reich written by Martin W Bowman and has been published by Air World this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From 1942 until the end of the war in Europe, the aircraft of RAF Bomber Command and the United States’ 8th and 15th Air Forces maintained a twenty-four hour, ‘round-the-clock’ bombing offensive against the Third Reich. However, aircraft and crew casualties were heavy as bomber after bomber succumbed to the Germans’ flak and fighter defences. For those not killed outright by the onslaught, only baling out – almost inevitably over hostile enemy territory – could offer a hope of survival. For those faced with such sudden leaps into the dangerous unknown over Germany and Occupied Europe, a few were able to evade capture. For the rest, and particularly the injured, capture was immediate and imprisonment inevitable. Once incarcerated in one of Hitler’s infamous prisoner of war camps, escape became a constant preoccupation for many. The ultimate aim of these men was to complete a ‘Home Run’ – to escape the Third Reich and reach the safety of Britain or other safe Allied territory. In this revealing narrative, the renowned aviation historian Martin Bowman draws on many first-hand accounts, some never told before, to describe the furious air battles that led to the capture of many shot-down airmen, as well as the subsequent personal campaigns they fought to regain their freedom. Fascinating for its gripping and factual re-creation of the bomber-fighter/flak encounters, the confrontations in captivity between PoWs and Stalag guards, Escape from Hitler’s Reich provides a real insight into the war as those who ‘fell from formation’ saw it.
An American Heroine In The French Resistance
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Author : Virginia d' Albert-Lake
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2006
An American Heroine In The French Resistance written by Virginia d' Albert-Lake and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"After the war, Virginia stayed in France with Philippe, receiving awards from the governments of France, Belgium, Great Britain, and the United States, including the Croix de Guerre, Legion d'Honneur, and Medal of Honor. She died at the age of 87 in 1997." "Judy Barrett Litoff brings together two rare documents in this unique book - Virginia's diary of wartime France until her capture in 1944 and her prison memoir, written immediately after the war."--Jacket.
Mi9
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Author : Helen Fry
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-27
Mi9 written by Helen Fry and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-27 with History categories.
A thrilling history of MI9—the WWII organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces from behind enemy lines When Allied fighters were trapped behind enemy lines, one branch of military intelligence helped them escape: MI9. The organization set up clandestine routes that zig-zagged across Nazi-occupied Europe, enabling soldiers and airmen to make their way home. Secret agents and resistance fighters risked their lives and those of their families to hide the men. Drawing on declassified files and eye-witness testimonies from across Europe and the United States, Helen Fry provides a significant reassessment of MI9’s wartime role. Central to its success were figures such as Airey Neave, Jimmy Langley, Sam Derry, and Mary Lindell—one of only a few women parachuted into enemy territory for MI9. This astonishing account combines escape and evasion tales with the previously untold stories behind the establishment of MI9—and reveals how the organization saved thousands of lives.
Masters Of The Air
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Author : Donald L. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-05-07
Masters Of The Air written by Donald L. Miller and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Now a major television event from Apple TV and Steven Spielberg (starring Austin Butler, Callum Turner and Anthony Boyle) and companion to Band of Brothers and The Pacific. ‘Seconds after Brady’s plane was hit, the Hundredth’s entire formation was broken up and scattered by swarms of single-engine planes, and by rockets launched by twin-engine planes that flew parallel’ Meet the Flying Fortresses of the American Eighth Air Force, Britain’s Lancaster comrades, who helped to bring down the Nazis Historian and World War II expert Donald Miller brings us the story of the bomber boys who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. Unlike ground soldiers they slept on clean beds, drank beer in local pubs, and danced to the swing music of the travelling Air Force bands. But they were also an elite group of fighters who put their lives on the line in the most dangerous role of all. Miller takes readers from the adrenaline filled battles in the sky, to the airbases across England, the German prison camps, and onto the ground to understand the devastation faced by civilians. Drawn from interviews, oral histories, and American, British and German archives, Masters of the Air is the authoritative, deeply moving and important account of the world's first and only bomber war.
Silent Heroes
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Author : Sherri Greene Ottis
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-12-14
Silent Heroes written by Sherri Greene Ottis and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-14 with History categories.
In the early years of World War II, it was an amazing feat for an Allied airman shot down over occupied Europe to make it back to England. By 1943, however, pilots and crewmembers, supplied with "escape kits," knew they had a 50 percent chance of evading capture and returning home. An estimated 12,000 French civilians helped make this possible. More than 5,000 airmen, many of them American, successfully traveled along escape lines organized much like those of the U.S. Underground Railroad, using secret codes and stopping in safe houses. If caught, they risked internment in a POW camp. But the French, Belgian, and Dutch civilians who aided them risked torture and even death. Sherri Ottis writes candidly about the pilots and crewmen who walked out of occupied Europe, as well as the British intelligence agency in charge of Escape and Evasion. But her main focus is on the helpers, those patriots who have been all but ignored in English-language books and journals. To research their stories, Ottis hiked the Pyrenees and interviewed many of the survivors. She tells of the extreme difficulty they had in avoiding Nazi infiltration by double agents; of their creativity in hiding evaders in their homes, sometimes in the midst of unexpected searches; of their generosity in sharing their meager food supplies during wartime; and of their unflagging spirit and courage in the face of a war fought on a very personal level.
How British Intelligence Plotted To Read Hitler S Mind
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Author : James Parris
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2021-06-01
How British Intelligence Plotted To Read Hitler S Mind written by James Parris and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-01 with History categories.
In the darkest days of the Second World War, as Europe fell under Nazi domination and Britain faced invasion, Louis de Wohl, a 36-year-old refugee from Germany, made a curious offer to British Intelligence. Based on the widely held belief that Hitler's every action was guided by his horoscope, de Wohl claimed he could reveal precisely what advice the Führer's astrologers were giving him. Rather than dismissing de Wohl out of hand as a crank, senior intelligence officers and chiefs of staff of the three armed services took him at his word. De Wohl was made an army captain and quartered in the Grosvenor House Hotel, from where his one-man 'Psychological Research Bureau' passed astrological readings and assessments to the War Office, before his deployment to the United States by the highly secret Special Operations Executive on a propaganda mission. Was it possible that Military and Naval intelligence officers could take the ancient and arcane practice of astrology seriously? Was de Wohl genuine or merely a charlatan? Did his astrological readings contribute to the downfall of Hitler and Nazi Germany? In How British Intelligence Plotted to Read Hitler's Mind, the first fulllength study of Louis de Wohl, James Parris examines the evidence – including material from MI5, Military and Naval Intelligence files at the National Archives – and reaches remarkable conclusions about this bizarre aspect of the Second World War.