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Saturday at M.I.9 is the inside story of the underground escape lines in occupied Northwest Europe which brought back to Britain over 4,000 Allied servicemen during World War Two.
Airey Neave, who in the last two years of the war was the chief organizer at M.I.9 gives his own unique account. He describes how the escape lines began in the first dark days of German occupation and how, until the end of the war, thousands of ordinary men and women made their own contribution to the Allied victory by hiding and feeding men and guiding them to safety. "There isn't a page in the book which isn't exciting in incident, wise in judgment, and absorbing through its human involvement." Times Literary Supplement.
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"There isn't a page in the book which isn't exciting in incident, wise in judgment, and absorbing through its human involvement." Times Literary Supplement.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is probably the very best book I have ever read. Not only is it beautifully written but the craftsmanship of it is the best I have seen. It is compelling reading, difficult to put down, and all the more praiseworthy because it is fact, and not fiction. Specially recommended for female readers as women feature so prominently, and impressively. in it
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Written with first hand experience. I found this book a must read and could not put it down. The highs and the lows were written with so much feeling. His story had to be told and he did that very well indeed.
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24 Jan 2003
Format:Hardcover
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 Gestapo, with torture and execution typically following, if not a sentence to a concentration camp. The resistance did this work at great risk as their sense of duty to the war effort, or their way to fight the Nazis. The escape lines were typically broken up by traitors in the employ of the Gestapo who posed as escaping Allied airmen. Neave documents the actions of the most hated traitors and what happened to them in the end.
There is a bibliography of 10 sources, and this book has probably 10 more references to other books on the same subject in the footnotes (which look great!).
Note: I think this book first appeared under the title "Escape Room" in 1969. My edition of "Saturday" is a paperback published in 1989. I bought Escape Room in hard back form. It has lots of pictures and some maps, whereas "Saturday" does not. However "Saturday" has a unique section called "Aftermath" which details the fate of traitors to the escape lines, most of whom were apprehended and executed.
1 of 10 people found the following review helpful
the escape room
26 Jan 2000
Format:Hardcover
i havent read this book but i used all the information from the cover in a report and i wrote it down in the bibliography
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