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Spooner, Pat

 
9781848848108: A Talent for Adventure: The Remarkable Wartime Exploits of Lt Col Pat Spooner Mbe.
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ISBN 10 : 1848848102 ISBN 13 : 9781848848108
Editeur : Pen & Sword Military, 2012

Synopsis

Books on prison camps, daring escapes and life with the Resistance abound. Pat Spooner's story is different and more compelling in one important respect. It recounts the gripping and dramatic rescue of two senior British generals (one a VC) and an air vice marshal from occupied Italy by the author and his companion who had themselves both escaped from an Italian PoW camp.This book covers a range of wartime exploits from operating behind Japanese lines in Burma and Malaya to laying secret dumps on remote islands in the Bay of Bengal for the benefit of RAF aircrew unable to reach their base. At the war's end, Pat Spooner, a 25-year-old lieutenant colonel, commanded a war crimes investigation unit in Java and Burma. He describes his personal experiences of the intensive efforts to track down and bring to justice the perpetrators of some of the foulest crimes ever committed by Man. Then, as a senior staff officer (Assistant Adjutant General) he spent a further twelve months controlling the nerve centre, in Singapore, of the entire war crimes organization in Southeast Asia involving 18 investigation units.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Books on prison camps, daring escapes and life with the Resistance abound. Pat Spooner's story is different and more compelling in one important respect. It recounts the gripping and dramatic rescue of two senior British generals (one a VC) and an air vice marshal from occupied Italy by the author and his companion who had themselves both escaped from an Italian PoW camp.This book covers a range of wartime exploits from operating behind Japanese lines in Burma and Malaya to laying secret dumps on remote islands in the Bay of Bengal for the benefit of RAF aircrew unable to reach their base. At the war's end, Pat Spooner, a 25-year-old lieutenant colonel, commanded a war crimes investigation unit in Java and Burma. He describes his personal experiences of the intensive efforts to track down and bring to justice the perpetrators of some of the foulest crimes ever committed by Man. Then, as a senior staff officer (Assistant Adjutant General) he spent a further twelve months controlling the nerve centre, in Singapore, of the entire war crimes organization in Southeast Asia involving 18 investigation units.

Revue de presse

A former M19 secret agent has been entertaining people at an event in Guildford with tales of his escapades. - Surrey Times Nestled in a leafy Guildford side street is the quiet home of a former M19 secret agent, who was fat tracked to military honours after his adventurous escapes, raids and rescue missions during the Second World War. A grandfather now, and more than 70 years since the war broke out and Lieur-Col Spooner was captured in Tobruk, but the stories he has to tell are as gripping as any Hollywood blockbuster. --Surrey Advertiser

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Éditeur
Pen & Sword Military
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1848848102
ISBN 13 
9781848848108
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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