Books with author Airey Neave

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

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.

The Bestselling Escape Memoir of the Second World War THEY HAVE THEIR EXITS stands in the premier division of military memoirs. Airey Neave recaptures the heroism and bravery of many men during the Second World War. His own courage was recognized through the DSO, OBE, MC and several other honours, and in this personal account of his life in the "trenches", he tells why. Wounded and captured at Calais in May 1940, he was a persistent escaper, eventually being sent to the "escape-proof" Colditz Castle in Germany. But he was soon to become the first British officer to make a "home-run" back to England. He then continued his war efforts by working in France with the French Resistance. His "adventures" continue, even after Germany's surrender, with his time in service with the Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal.