The man who was saturday: the extraordinary life of Airey Neave, soldier, escaper, spymaster, politician
✍ Scribed by Great Britain;Bishop, Patrick;Neave, Airey
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 847 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- London William Collins 2019
- ISBN
- 0008309051
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✦ Synopsis
Soldier, spy, lawyer, politician Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop's lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of Britain's most remarkable 20th century figures. Airey Neave was one of the most extraordinary figures of his generation. Taken prisoner during WW2, he was the first British officer to escape from Colditz and using the code name 'Saturday' became a key figure in the IS9 escape and evasion organisation which spirited hundreds of Allied airmen and soldiers out of Occupied Europe. A lawyer by training, he served the indictments on the Nazi leaders at the Nuremburg war trials. An ardent Cold War warrior, he was mixed up in several of the great spy scandals of the period. Most people might consider these achievements enough for a single career, but he went on to become the man who made Margaret Thatcher, mounting a brilliantly manipulative campaign in the...
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✦ Subjects
Great Britain