New PDF release: The Shelburne Escape Line: SecretRescues of Allied Aviators

By Reanne Hemingway-Douglass Hemingway-Douglass,Don Douglass

Six a long time after the tip of worldwide battle II, new tales concerning the clash proceed to emerge. the sort of is the topic of this e-book. Written by way of an American, Réanne Hemingway-Douglass, and released within the united kingdom through Pen & Sword, it has all of the parts of a vintage covert experience story.   As the publication explains, the Shelburne used to be one of many later get away strains that operated inside Nazi-occupied Europe. It was once verified on the finish of 1943 by means of brokers who labored for MI-9, the London-based army intelligence corporation accountable for delivering suggestions to Allied servicemen stranded in 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 army motor gunboat picked them up from a secluded seashore and added them again to England. 8 audacious evacuation operations have been performed among January and August, 1944, with out the Shelburne Line ever being infiltrated via the Gestapo.  Aspects of the Shelburne tale were instructed formerly in memoirs through numerous of the contributors, together with the overdue MP Airey Neave, who was once an MI-9 operative. although, Hemingway-Douglass expands the tale to incorporate memories of a few of the neighborhood Breton those that have been concerned with the road. the second one 1/2 the ebook contains own tales of airmen and different people who have been affiliated with the Shelburne Line or have been differently stuck up within the struggle in France.   A lifelong Francophile, Hemingway-Douglass took 8 years to analyze and write the e-book. 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 battle touches everybody.”

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