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Comet Escape Line

Name: Comet Escape Line
Brand: The History Press
SKU: 47619128
Price: 17.97 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Alexander Stilwell
ISBN: 9781803996097

Alexander Stilwell

Language

English

E-book Adobe ePub DRM

Publishers The History Press, September 2024

The Comet Escape Line tells the story of the most successful escape line of the Second World War. In... Full description

Libristo code: 47619128

44 b

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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, Andree 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.