The Jersey Boys and Liberation!

Some compelling wartime memories from three remarkable men.

De: Don Hale

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

The Jersey Boys and Liberation! Some compelling wartime memories from three remarkable men. By Don Hale.
This is the true story of two remarkable Jersey Boys, and an eventual Liberator, who were all teenagers at the start of World War Two, but soon became embroiled in a variety of dramatic events following the Occupation of Jersey in the Channel Islands by German Forces during 1940-45.
Joe Miére was a constant thorn in the side of the Nazi invaders and became a political prisoner and resistance leader who was often arrested, jailed, and beaten, for demonstrations, and for anti-German acts of violence, and he even spent time in a ‘condemned cell’ with an enemy officer facing the death penalty.
Fellow Jerseyman Michael Ginns was deported with his family, and hundreds of others to an Internment camp in Germany in retaliation by Hitler, following restrictions against his own citizens in Persia, and tells of his traumatic and eventful journey back to the UK during the latter stages of the war, dodging Allied air raids and the Gestapo, on a special Red Cross train through the very heart of war-torn Germany
Don reveals how the former RNVR Lt Noel Cashford later met up with the Jersey Boys after he became the first man ashore in Jersey, as a daring Bomb & Mine Disposal Officer with Task Force 135 and Operation Nestegg that finally forced the surrender of the Island from a fanatical German Commander, before making safe many hundreds of tons of stored ammunition, and a succession of cleverly disguised, but deadly booby-traps!

About the author: Don Hale OBE is a well-known author and former investigative journalist, who has written many books about a host of varied subjects. He has been a journalist for over 50-years, and he has been the editor of five regional newspapers.
He has taken part in several special features and TV documentaries and he has also been involved in quite a few high-profile and successful miscarriage of justice cases, including those of Stephen Downing and Barry George, amongst many others. His campaign to help free Downing won the ‘National Campaign of the Year Award,’ and helped to force a change in British and European law.
In 2002 Don Hale was made an OBE for his efforts and for campaigning journalism. The medal was presented by Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, who is now King Charles!
Don subsequently won a number of national awards including the regional 'Journalist of the Year' prize on two separate occasions, plus the prestigious national ‘What the Papers Say, ‘Journalist of the Year award.’ He also became the Observer’s 'Man of the Year.'
He has written three best-selling true crime and true-life books including his compelling story about his campaign to free Downing, called MURDER IN THE GRAVEYARD, published by Harper Collins, and became a BBC TV drama. Some of his other popular books include,MALLARD, how the blue streak broke the world steam record. This highlighted the determination by Sir Nigel Gresley to win the battle against the developing Nazi Party in the late 1930s to create the fastest steam locomotive in the world.
And another interesting tale is, THE FINAL DIVE about Buster Crabb, the WW2 underwater hero and Navy spy, who disappeared in bizarre circumstances under Soviet warships in 1956. A revised edition - Buster Crabb - Ian Fleming's favourite spy and the inspiration for James Bond, now highlights some memorable missions completed by Crabb under the direction of his former wartime boss, Ian Fleming, who later included some sequences from these daring missions within his popular novels and movies about Bond. *All his books are available via Amazon. https://amzn.to/4bIugHH
*Don Hale also has his own blog for sports and special features: https://donhaleblog.blogspot.com