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Shelburne Escape Line Aviators Aviation Bomber Royal Navy Miltary Book
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- Book Title
- Shelburne Escape Line
- Brand
- Three Hills Books
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781473837782
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books The Limited
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Military / World War II, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, General
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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Six decades after the end of World War II, new stories about the conflict continue to emerge. One of these is the subject of this book. Written by an American, Reanne Hemingway-Douglass, and published in the UK by Pen & Sword, it has all the elements of a classic covert adventure tale. As the book explains, 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." AUTHOR: Reanne Hemingway-Douglass received her B.A. degree in French from Pomona College, California, and attended the Universite de Grenoble, France and Claremont Graduate University. A writer, editor, cyclist, sailor, and language teacher, she is the author of numerous magazine articles on bicycling, cruising, and women's issues. Her 2003 memoir 'Cape Horn: One Man's Dream, One Woman's Nightmare' is a classic in nautical survival literature and has been published in French and Italian.
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Publisher
Pen & Sword Books The Limited
ISBN-10
1473837782
ISBN-13
9781473837782
eBay Product ID (ePID)
211726901
Product Key Features
Book Title
Shelburne Escape Line
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, General
Publication Year
2015
Genre
History
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
D810.S7
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
940.548641
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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