Andree de jongh biography books

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The comet line film

The exhilarating true story of the greatest escape route of the Second World War On a hot afternoon in August , a year-old Belgian woman walks into the British consulate in Bilbao, neutral Spain, and demands to see the consul. She presents him with a British soldier she has smuggled all the way from Brussels, through Occupied France and over the Pyrenees.

It is a journey she will make countless times thereafter, at unthinkable danger to her own life. And she is an inspiration. From nursing wounded Allied servicemen, de Jongh will go on to establish the most famous escape line of the Second World War, saving the lives of more than airmen and soldiers stranded behind enemy lines. The risks, however, will be enormous.

The cost, unspeakably tragic. Her story is shot through with the constant terror of discovery and interception - of late-night knocks at the door, of disastrous moonlit river crossings, Gestapo infiltrators, firing squads and concentration camps.