The Comet

Resistance, Betrayal and the Most Thrilling Adventure of WWII
The astonishing true story of the Comet Line, an underground railroad for rescuing shot-down British airmen during the Second World War

'Starts with a bang and never lets up until the final page. Compulsively readable . a spy story, a war story and a love story. A rousing, rollicking, entirely thrilling book' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE, author of London Falling

In 1941, Andrée 'Dédée' de Jongh set out on a mission that would put her in the greatest peril: to smuggle downed allied airmen out of Nazi-occupied Europe and get them safely home. Crossing rivers, mountains and heavily guarded borders, she built an escape route spanning more than a thousand miles. Known as the Comet Line, it would become the greatest escape service of the Second World War.

At a time when the fate of Europe was being decided in the skies, every highly skilled pilot Dédée rescued was a weapon returned to the fight. But, for the agents of the Comet Line, every journey to freedom brought them closer to betrayal, arrest, torture and execution. Dédée knew the risks. She went on anyway.

This is the extraordinary story of the Comet Line - and the fearless woman who risked everything to keep it alive.

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