Name: Tragic Heroes: The Burney Brothers of Hay at War
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Author: Purcell, Hugh ; Percy, Margaret
ISBN: 9781800991859

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Tragic Heroes: The Burney Brothers of Hay at War

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Physical Book

Author

Hugh Purcell

Margaret Percy

Publisher

Y Lolfa

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781800991859

Synopsis "Tragic Heroes: The Burney Brothers of Hay at War"

The stories of two very different brothers from Hay-on-Wye and the part they played in World War II. Commando Christopher Burney was parachuted into occupied France as a secret agent in 1942. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp, he survived. His books on the experience became classics in the 1950s. Meanwhile Roger Burney, a conscientious objector while at Cambridge, became a British Naval Liaison Officer on the Free French submarine Surcouf, whose sinking with all hands in the Caribbean in 1942 remains a mystery. Roger was a good friend of Benjamin Britten's and the composer's famous 'War Requiem' is dedicated to him. This account of their lives is based on new research and uses family papers for the first time.

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