Saturday at M.I.9
NEAVE, Airey
A History of Underground Escape Lines in North-West Europe in 1940-5 by a leading Organiser at M.I.9. [Fourth Impression.]
NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Published: Hodder & Stoughton, [1969]
Stock code: 40806
Price: £38.00
8vo., Fourth Impression, with portrait frontispiece, 25 plates on 14, 6 maps in the text and front and rear endpaper maps in red; black cloth, backstrip lettered in red, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased and frayed at edges and with small loss at bottom edge of rear panel.
The first account of the escape lines by an insider, himself the first British officer to escape from Colditz. Tragically, Airey Neave was assassinated by the INLA at the Houses of Parliament in 1979. Published three months after the first edition. Enser, p.151 (recording the first edition).