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Little Cyclone
Airey Neave
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Description for Little Cyclone
Paperback. The exhilarating and true story of the most remarkable escape route of the Second World War. Series: Dialogue Espionage Classics. Num Pages: 222 pages, 8 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
On a hot afternoon in August 1941, a 24-year-old Belgian woman walks into the British consulate in Bilbao, neutral Spain, and demands to see the consul. She presents him with a British soldier she has smuggled all the way from Brussels, through occupied France and over the Pyrenees. It is a journey she will make countless times thereafter, at unthinkable danger to her own life.Her name is Andree de Jongh, though she will come to be known as the 'Little Cyclone' in deference to her extraordinary courage and tenacity. And she is an inspiration. From nursing wounded Allied servicemen, de ... Read more
On a hot afternoon in August 1941, a 24-year-old Belgian woman walks into the British consulate in Bilbao, neutral Spain, and demands to see the consul. She presents him with a British soldier she has smuggled all the way from Brussels, through occupied France and over the Pyrenees. It is a journey she will make countless times thereafter, at unthinkable danger to her own life.Her name is Andree de Jongh, though she will come to be known as the 'Little Cyclone' in deference to her extraordinary courage and tenacity. And she is an inspiration. From nursing wounded Allied servicemen, de ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Biteback Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849549608
SKU
V9781849549608
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Ref
99-1
About Airey Neave
Airey Neave served as an intelligence agent for MI9 in World War Two before later becoming Member of Parliament for Abingdon. He died in 1979 in an IRA car-bomb attack at the House of Commons.
Reviews for Little Cyclone
"A true story of extraordinary bravery, betrayal, tragedy and triumph." - Daily Telegraph