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  Publications by Airey Neave
Airey Neave, then a young Gunner officer, who fought in the battle, was wounded and captured at Calais (see the Biographical Note on the back flap).
Not only were Airey Neave's wartime experiences of an extraordinary breadth, but he had the literary ability to record them.
Airey Neave, who in the last two years of the war was the chief organiser at M.I.9 gives his own unique account.
www.aireyneavetrust.org.uk /publications.htm   (580 words)

  
  Airey Neave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave, DSO, OBE, MC, (January 23, 1916 – March 30, 1979) was a British Conservative MP for Abingdon and a prominent politician.
Neave was educated at Eton College and went on to study law at Merton College, Oxford.
Neave stood at the 1950 election in Thurrock and was elected for Abingdon in a by-election in June 1953, but his career was held back by a heart attack he suffered in 1959.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Airey_Neave   (1297 words)

  
 Airey Neave - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave (January 23, 1916 - March 30, 1979) was a British Conservative MP for Abingdon and a prominent politician.
Said to have master-minded Margaret Thatcher's campaign for the Conservative Party leadership in 1975, at a time when he allegedly supported covert "civil defence" actions against Harold Wilson's Labour government, Neave was rewarded with the post of head of her private office.
He was killed a few weeks before the general election which brought Margaret Thatcher to power as prime minister.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Airey_Neave   (523 words)

  
 Books | Maggie's Machiavel
Airey Neave, reading the mood of the parliamentary party, persuaded a good many MPs to vote for Thatcher not in order to elect her but to give Heath a sharp warning that he must change his ways.
Airey Neave, he suggested, was killed by a combination of MI6 and the Americans who feared that when Margaret Thatcher became prime minister, Neave might scupper their plans for a United Ireland.
Neave knew this world from his wartime past, kept in touch with some of its personalities, and enjoyed the occasional spot of dining and whispering himself.
books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4374878-99939,00.html   (1215 words)

  
 The Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave - smh.com.au
Neave had links with the intelligence community dating back to his war service, but there seems no real proof he was active in the field after he became an MP.
Neave begged for five minutes' grace, went into the cathedral unarmed, climbed up the spiral staircase, and waved a handkerchief to indicate there were no Germans there.
Neave was determined to keep the six counties part of Britain, the US Administration wanted a united Ireland as a member of the Western defence alliance.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/05/03/1019441427725.html   (735 words)

  
 Airey Neave : Les Chemins de Gibraltar - Lire en liberté
Airey Neave : Les Chemins de Gibraltar - Lire en liberté
Rentré à Londres en mai 1942, AIREY NEAVE allait entrer dans la très secrète section 900 du non moins secret service M.I.9 de l'Intelligence Service.
Ce livre -premier du genre jamais encore écrit par un ex-agent des services secrets britanniques - nous révèle comment, depuis Londres, les réseaux d'évasion établis, tant en France qu'en Belgique et plus tard - aux Pays-Bas, allaient pouvoir survivre et assurer le rapatriement de plus de 4 000 aviateurs et soldats alliés.
www.lireenliberte.fr /fiche-1688.html   (281 words)

  
 BBC News | UK Politics | Murder of Airey Neave marked
The assassination 20 years ago of Tory Northern Ireland spokesman Airey Neave was marked at a memorial service in Westminster on Tuesday.
Mr Neave was Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary when he was killed by a car bomb on the ramp leading to the House of Commons underground car park on 30 March 1979 - just yards from the Commons Crypt Chapel of St Mary Undercroft, where Tuesday's service was held.
For Mr Neave, he said, Parliament was a place where laws could be made which would safeguard personal freedom and extend it.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/307926.stm   (403 words)

  
 Ireland's OWN: History   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A man named by a republican informer as playing a part in the murder of Airey Neave, the Conservative MP, has admitted he was a member of the terrorist group behind the attack and that he was in London at the time of the killing.
Neave, a war hero and adviser to Lady Thatcher, was killed by a booby trap bomb as he left the House of Commons car park in March 1979.
He said that when he heard the news of Neave's death and was told the RUC was looking for him he decided to return home and deny ever being away.
www.irelandsown.net /neave4.html   (398 words)

  
 Airey Neave
Neave was rewarded by being appointed as head of Thatcher's private office.
Airey Neave told me that he believed the time had come for me to resign.
At Oxford, Neave was more occupied by traditional student activities such as partying than by politics or studies, but with a frantic last-minute struggle, he achieved a law degree and then embarked on a career at the Bar.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /PRneave.htm   (956 words)

  
 Airey Neave Biography
Neave went to Eton and on to study law at Oxford, he also joined the Territorial Army and became an officer in the regular army at the beginning of World War II.
Neave made an early attempt to escape from Colditz but his unlikely German uniform disguise led to him being captured while still within the castle.
Neave became an MP in 1951 and carried on despite a heart attack in 1959 and in the 1970s became head of Margaret's (QV) private office then shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
www.fandmpublications.co.uk /pages/aireyneavebiography1.htm   (362 words)

  
 Airey Neave Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Airey Neave recaptures the heroism and bravery of many men during the Second World War.
Airey Neave, later to be Margaret Thatcher's right hand man until his...
Airey Neave, who in the last two years of the war was the chief organiser at M.I.9 gives his own unique account.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Airey_Neave   (361 words)

  
 They Have Their Exits 
Airey Neave's first hand account of his successful escape from Colditz, and when he met the Nazis again - at Nuremburg.
Considered escape proof, nevertheless Airey Neave escaped again - he was the first British officer to do a home run and got back to England via Switzerland, Vichy France and then Gibraltar.
At the end of the war, Neave was asked to take part in the Nuremburg trials and this fascinating account concludes They Have Their Exits.
www.rippingyarns.com /products/They_Have_Their_Exits.htm   (202 words)

  
 Irish Democrat : Features : A tangled web of intrigue
WHILE AIREY Neave has been credited with masterminding the rise of Margaret Thatcher to power, less well publicised is the fact that no one has ever been brought to account for his murder.
A drunk Neave coming home from a St Patrick's event at the Irish embassy was said to have told Cahill that there would be a cleaning of the Augean stables.
While Neave's killers were never found, Routledge believes that the government and secret state got their revenge on the Irish Republican Socialist Party and INLA with a series of killings.
www.irishdemocrat.co.uk /features/airey-neave   (1153 words)

  
 New Statesman - A fatal choice. When Irish terrorists murdered Airey Neave in the car park of the House of Commons, ...
When Irish terrorists murdered Airey Neave in the car park of the House of Commons, they chose their target well.
Neave, on the other hand, is said to have "given his standard rant" against the tide of murder in Ulster, and the story of an MI6 assassination plot against Tony Benn is recycled.
Had Neave lived, the IRA would not today have victory in its grasp, because there is no doubt that he would have continued to prosecute the war, using all the dark arts of intelligence and the secret state.
www.newstatesman.com /200203110044   (1223 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Profile For B. Barrett: Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Neave was key in the rise to power of Margaret Thatcher.
Neave favored putting down the IRA ruthlessly, and was assassinated in a car bombing before he could try it.
Neave documents the actions of the most hated traitors and what happened to them in the end.
www.amazon.com /gp/cdp/member-reviews/A1I49NILWLE6G?_encoding=UTF8   (1529 words)

  
 Airey Neave
He was killed when a car bomb exploded under his car as he drove out of the Palace of Westminster car park.
Neave was educated at Eton College and Merton College, Oxford, trained as a lawyer, and became an officer in the British army at the beginning of World War II.
Taken prisoner by the Germans, he became the first British officer to escape from the high-security PoW camp at Colditz.
www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/a/ai/airey_neave.html   (231 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Public Servant, Secret Agent: The Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave: Books: Paul Routledge   (Site not responding. Last check: )
On 30 March 1979 for the first time in more than 100 years an MP was killed by a car bomb in the precincts of the House of Commons.
Airey Neave was a loyal Tory backbencher who had last held ministerial office in 1959.
With new information about the mysterious circumstances surrounding Neave's death, Paul Routledge has written a captivating and revealing life of a man who was the ghost in the establishment.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1841152447   (397 words)

  
 A History of Ireland in Song
In fact he may well have been a member of the shadowy "secret state" in post-war Britain — a reading of Lobster and, remarkably, a search of Hansard (!), certainly turns up some hair-raising allegations.
Neave was one of the moving forces in the Tory party behind the rise of Margaret Thatcher.
He was also instrumental, with Ian Gow and others, in formulating the British policy that would be followed in Ireland throughout the 1980s.
ireland.dyn.dhs.org /Airey_Neave.html   (281 words)

  
 RAFES - Freteval - background   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Crockatt was haunted by the spectre of a general massacre of Allied troops or airmen caught at large in occupied territory, and resolved to prevent one if he could.
In the end 152 were rescued by Neave himself and the American Captain Coletta, under guard of a big S.A.S. patrol, by a bus convoy from Le Mans in mid August.
Neave wrote: On arrival in London on March 9th, de Blommaert spent two days at 22 Pelham Crescent writing his report.
frankhaslam.members.beeb.net /freteval/fret_back.htm   (7278 words)

  
 The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review: The Airey Neave test: which Tory leadership candidate has the strongest team?
Headed by Airey Neave MP (later to be tragically killed by the IRA), she had Angus Maude MP, Frank Johnson, Sir Alfred Sherman and Keith Joseph to help with policy, articles and speeches whilst the PR supremo Gordon Reece, assisted her with her media image.
In summary, Mr Fox passes the Airey Neave test with flying colours, yet is currently in a weaker position than Mr Davis and Mr Cameron.
Your information on the "Airey Neave test: which Tory leadership candidate has the strongest team?" is now out of date with regards to Sir Malcolm Rifkind.
www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk /blog/archives/000545.php   (2498 words)

  
 Cambridge Security Programme   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Airey Neave Trust is currently funding a one-year research project on 'Transnational Networks and New Security Threats' (Nov. 2003 - Oct. 2004).
One of the chief aims of the Airey Neave research project is to redress this balance by focusing not only on how networks propagate new threats to security but also on how network organisations shape state responses to such threats.
In providing a framework for explaining variation in government response to networked threats, the project critically scrutinises the prevailing assumption that non-state actors are better able than states to exploit network forms of organisation.
www.cambridge-security.net /project-anrp.html   (191 words)

  
 Remarks after visiting Airey Neave’s widow (Airey Neave assassination) | Margaret Thatcher Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: )
MT made a few remarks to the cameras as she left Diana Neave’s flat in Westminster Gardens.
" [ Airey Neave] He was staunch, brave, true, strong, but he was very gentle and kind and loyal.
And now we must carry on for the things he fought for and not let the people who got him triumph.
www.margaretthatcher.org /speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=103991   (88 words)

  
 Snappish Thoughts: Unity
It should also investigate the information passed by Airey Neave to Peter Wright, in Peter Wright's capacity as an MI5 officer, about figures in public life.
It should investigate the meeting held between Peter Wright and the late Airey Neave in the period immediately before the decision of Airey Neave to offer his campaign services to the right hon.
It should investigate the meeting that took place in the Cumberland hotel a week before the murder of Airey Neave, when Airey Neave sought to recruit a former officer of MI6 to set up a small group to involve itself in the internal struggles of the Labour party.
www.snappishproductions.com /blog/archives/2005/09/unity.html   (166 words)

  
 Ireland's OWN: History
Three of the 10 republican hunger strikers who died in 1981 were in the INLA:
The INLA is probably best known for the killing of Margaret Thatcher's close aide, Airey Neave in a car bomb at the House of Commons car park.
Two of their better known bombings are the Mount Gabriel radar station near Cork, Ireland and the Droppin' Well disco in Ballykelly, Co Derry, which killed 11 british soldiers!
irelandsown.net /INLA.html   (875 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Public servant, secret agent : the elusive life and violent death of Airey Neave
Public servant, secret agent : the elusive life and violent death of Airey Neave
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Lieutenant-Colonel Airey Neave D.S.O, O.B.E., M.C. This site is dedicated to the memory of Airey Neave and seeks to promote and keep alive the spirit of the man and what he stood for - a world free of violence, tyranny and oppression.
The project wll be a long one so please come back from time to time to check on progress.
Please also take a look at our sister site
www.aireyneave.com   (70 words)

  
 Sheffield Airey Neave (1879-1961), Naturalist, entomologist, vice-president of the Zoological Society 1953
Sheffield Airey Neave (1879-1961), Naturalist, entomologist, vice-president of the Zoological Society 1953
The online database contains information on 88,710 works, 49,933 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works.
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