Download e-book for kindle: The Shelburne Escape Line: SecretRescues of Allied Aviators by Reanne Hemingway-Douglass Hemingway-Douglass,Don Douglass

By Reanne Hemingway-Douglass Hemingway-Douglass,Don Douglass

Six a long time after the top of worldwide struggle II, new tales in regards to the clash proceed to emerge. this type of is the topic of this ebook. Written via an American, Réanne Hemingway-Douglass, and released within the united kingdom by way of Pen & Sword, it has all of the components of a vintage covert experience story.   As the booklet explains, the Shelburne was once one of many later get away strains that operated inside Nazi-occupied Europe. It used to be tested on the finish of 1943 through brokers who labored for MI-9, the London-based army intelligence corporation accountable for offering counsel to Allied servicemen stranded at the back of enemy strains. operating with the French Resistance, those brokers prepared for teams of Allied airmen to be taken from "safe homes" in Paris to Brittany, the place a Royal military motor gunboat picked them up from a secluded seashore and brought them again to England. 8 audacious evacuation operations have been carried out among January and August, 1944, with out the Shelburne Line ever being infiltrated by means of the Gestapo.  Aspects of the Shelburne tale were informed formerly in memoirs by way of a number of of the contributors, together with the past due MP Airey Neave, who was once an MI-9 operative. even though, Hemingway-Douglass expands the tale to incorporate reminiscences of a few of the neighborhood Breton those that have been concerned with the road. the second one half the e-book includes own tales of airmen and different people who have been affiliated with the Shelburne Line or have been another way stuck up within the warfare in France.   A lifelong Francophile, Hemingway-Douglass took 8 years to analyze and write the booklet. She describes it as a “labor of affection that will pay tribute to the heroism and braveness of 'ordinary' humans, whereas reinforcing the truth that warfare touches everybody.”

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