As a British airman of the Second World War, Jim Auton dropped bombs on enemy targets all over central and Eastern Europe. He was also engaged in a number of low flying operations, organised in order to drop containers of explosives and ammunition in an effort to assist groups of partisans in enemy occupied countries. After the war, he was to enter the cut-throat world of international trade, setting up an extensive network of clients in the industrial areas of the western world. It was during this time that an opportunity arose to revisit all those bombing targets and areas where he had supported secret underground resistance forces during the war. Working undercover on the stated objective of investigating potential East/West trading opportunities, he was to discover, to his great dismay, the final fates of the various partisan operations that he had so bravely endeavoured to assist. He was to discover that many of the Poles and Czechoslovaks who had assisted British units during the conflict had either been killed or imprisoned by the Communist authorities. He argues that, once victory over Nazi Germany had been secured, British and allied governments betrayed these resistance workers who had so bravely served the cause and paid such a significant contribution towards the allied war effort. In this, his second work of autobiographical memoir, Auton provides an enthralling first-hand account of intrigue, assassination, espionage and shameful betrayal on both sides of the Iron Curtain. 30 illustrations
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
ISBN-13
9781783831586
eBay Product ID (ePID)
195284739
Product Key Features
Author
Jim Auton
Publication Name
Secret Betrayal of Britain's Wartime Allies
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
216 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Jim Auton
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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