Great Escapes: The story of MI9’s Second World War escape and evasion maps. Barbara Bond

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      CONTENTS

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Creation of MI9

Chapter 2 Background to the Mapping Programme

Chapter 3 The Map Production Programme

       Chapter 4 Smuggling Maps and Other Escape Aids into the Camps

       Chapter 5 Coded Correspondence with the Camps

       Chapter 6 The Schaffhausen Salient and Airey Neave’s Escape

       Chapter 7 Escaping Through the Baltic Ports

       Chapter 8 Copying Maps in the Camps

       Chapter 9 MI9 and its Contribution to Military Mapping

       Appendices

       Appendices 1–9 Maps Known to have been Produced by MI9: A Carto-Bibliography

       Appendix 10 Decoding a Hidden Message

       Bibliography

       Illustration and Photographic Credits

       Index

       About the Publisher

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      I am indebted to many people for the realization of this long held ambition. To many friends and colleagues in Plymouth University especially Professor Wendy Purcell, formerly the Vice-Chancellor, for her inspiration, belief and confidence, Associate Professor Harry Bennett, Professor Mark Brayshay and Professor Kevin Jefferys for their outstanding scholarship, support and encouragement, Professor David McMullan for sharing his knowledge of cryptography, Tim Absalom and Jamie Quinn for their cartographic expertise, Andy Merrington and Lloyd Russell for photographs; to Peter Clark, formerly the Chief Map Research Officer in the Ministry of Defence, long-time professional colleague, mentor and friend, whose cartographic knowledge and expertise, and willingness to share them, remains undiminished; to Paul Hancock, Brian Garvan and Jim Caruth, former colleagues in the Mapping and Charting Establishment RE (now the Defence Geographic Centre); to the custodians of the many map collections, record repositories and museums I have visited and talked to in my pursuit of the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle, not least The National Archives, British Library, National Library of Scotland, Macclesfield Silk Museum, University of Glasgow, Second World War Experience Centre, Royal Air Force Museum, and the Intelligence Corps Museum; to John E. Bartholomew and the late John C. Bartholomew, Nicola Shelmerdine, daughter of СКАЧАТЬ