Tragic Heroes: The Burney Brothers of Hay at War

by Hugh Purcell

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800991851
• ISBN13: 9781800991859
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Y Lolfa
• Length: 352 Pages