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Cargando... They Have Their Exits (1953)por Airey Neave
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Classic escape story from Colditz Castle, understated. ( ) Neave was the first Englishman to escape from the castle at Colditz. Colditz was the German prisoner of war camp for Allied combatants who had escaped or attempted to escape from other POW camps. Supposedly escape-proof, there were some men who did escape including the Dutch soldier who left with Neave. Neave became involved in the prosecution of the Nazi leaders at Nuremberg. He enjoyed the irony of this task considering how much he suffered from their activities why he was a P.O.W. and during his several escape attempts. A bonus of this book is Neave's descriptions of what life was like in Germany for the German citizens that he remembered from traveling through the cities either as he was escaping or being moved around by the German soldiers. He observed that It was bleak and austere even during the early years of the War when the Germans were winning. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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The Author, who as a senior member of Mrs. Thatcher's Government was tragically assassinated by the IRA, had the most distinguished of war records. Wounded and taken prisoner in the desperate fighting at Calais in 1940, he became a compulsive escaper and the first one of the very few to make a 'home-run' from Colditz Castle. Thereafter he rejoined the fighting serving in France and Holland before becoming a member of the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremburg War Crimes trials. There he was to meet the most notorious members of the Nazi hierarchy as they faced justice and, in many cases, death. For the quality of its writing and the breadth of its author's experiences, They Have Their Exits is arguably the finest memoir to emerge from the Second World War, and one for which the sobriquet 'classic' seems wholly inadequate. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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