MI9: Escape and Evasion
By MRD Foot
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
Many of the most famous escapes in history took place during the Second World War. These daring flights from Nazi-occupied Europe would never have been possible but for the assistance of a hitherto secret British service: MI9. This small, dedicated and endlessly inventive team gave hope to the men who had fallen into enemy hands, and aid to resistance fighters in occupied territory. It sent money, maps, clothes, compasses, even hacksaws – and in return coded letters from the prisoner-of-war camps and provided invaluable news of what was happening in the enemy’s homeland. Understaffed and under-resourced, MI9 nonetheless made a terrific contribution to the Allied war effort. First published in 1979, this book tells the full, inside story of an extraordinary organisation.
MRD Foot
M. R. D. Foot CBE served throughout the Second World War and in 1945 was decorated for service with the French Resistance in Brittany. His time in action included a brief spell as a prisoner of war, which involved several unsuccessful escapes. He then taught at the University of Oxford for eight years, before going on to become Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester. He wrote and edited a number of books, including the classic SOE in France and Resistance: An Analysis of European Resistance to Nazism 1940–1945. He died in 2012.
Related to MI9
Related ebooks
Fight Another Day Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Shot Down and On the Run: The RCAF and Commonwealth Aircrews Who Got Home from Behind Enemy Lines, 1940-1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSecret Forces of World War II Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShot Down and on the Run: True Stories of RAF and Commonwealth Aircrews of WWII Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA History of the SAS: The First Forty Years Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAt Close Range: Life and Death in an Artillery Regiment, 1939-45 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Halifax Down!: On the Run from the Gestapo, 1944 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSaturday at M.I.9: The Classic Account of the WW2 Allied Escape Organisation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Escape and Evasion: Allied airborne troops behind enemy lines during Operation Market Garden Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Infantry Attacks [1944 Edition] Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDoctor for Friend and Foe: Britain's Frontline Medic in the Fight for the Falklands Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Air Forces Escape and Evasion Society Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMissing: The Need for Closure After the Great War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGreat Escapes: The story of MI9’s Second World War escape and evasion maps Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Combat Medic: Nonfiction, None Needed Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSAS South Georgia Boating Club: An SAS Trooper's Memoir and Falklands War Diary Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDistant Thunder: Helicopter Pilot's Letters from War in Iraq and Afghanistan Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSAS Jungle Survival Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsVoices of Snipers: Eyewitness Accounts from the World Wars Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMissions of the Delta Force Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsS.A.S Men in the Making: An Original's Account of Operations in Sicily and Italy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWe Prisoners of War: Sixteen British Officers and Soldiers Speak from a German Prison Camp Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFundamentals of Mantracking: The Step-by-Step Method: An Essential Primer for Search and Rescue Trackers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBy Sea and Land: The Story of the Royal Marine Commandos Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe U.S. Army Infantryman Pocket Manual 1941–45: ETO & MTO Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGrenadiers: The Story of Waffen SS General Kurt "Panzer" Meyer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5World War II: The Last War Heroes: From D-Day to Berlin with the men and machines that won the war Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Well Done, Those Men: memoirs of a Vietnam veteran Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Wars & Military For You
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Making of the Atomic Bomb Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unit 731: Testimony Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Washington: The Indispensable Man Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wager Disaster: Mayem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for MI9
0 ratings0 reviews