The war memoirs of a well-known public figure He was the first British officer to escape successfully from Colditz Castle. Also provides first hand insight into the characters of leading Nazis
Airey Neave Livres
Airey Neave était un officier de l'armée britannique, un avocat, un homme politique et un auteur. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Neave fut le premier officier britannique à s'échapper avec succès du camp de prisonniers de guerre allemand Oflag IV-C au château de Colditz. Pour son service pendant la guerre, en 1948, les États-Unis lui décernèrent la Bronze Star Medal. Il devint plus tard député conservateur pour Abingdon. Neave fut assassiné en 1979 dans un attentat à la voiture piégée à la Chambre des communes, revendiqué par l'Armée nationale de libération d'Irlande (INLA).
Nuremberg: A Personal Record of the Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals
- 384pages
- 14 heures de lecture
On 18 October 1945, a day that would haunt him for ever, Airey Neave personally served the official indictments on the twenty-one top Nazis awaiting trial in Nuremberg - including Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess and Albert Speer. With his visit to their gloomy prison cells, the tragedy of an entire generation reached its final act. The 29-year-old Neave, a wartime organiser of MI9 and the first Englishman to escape from Colditz Castle, had watched and listened over the months as the trials unfolded. Here, he describes the cowardice, calumny and in some cases bravado of the defendants - men he came to know and who in turn would become known as some of the most evil men in history. A milestone in international law, the Nuremberg trials prompted uncomfortable but vital questions about how we prosecute the worst crimes ever committed - and who is entitled to deliver justice. Challenging, poignant and incisive, this definitive eyewitness account remains indispensable reading today.
Saturday at M.I.9
- 328pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1969.
Little Cyclone
- 190pages
- 7 heures de lecture
The exhilarating and true story of the most remarkable escape route of the Second World War.