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402:(1946) which was based on "prolific notes I had dictated ... to a shorthand typist, during the month's leave following my escape". The second book "was, if anything, more successful than the first".
116:, Stirlingshire, the younger son of Thomas Andrew Millar. Millar's father was a self-made architect and builder; his mother's family owned property in Glasgow. His father died when he was 11 years old.
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Germans but eventually he was captured and briefly brought in front of
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Beatriz Hardwell, daughter of the diplomat Montague Bentley Talbot Paske Smith (
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his hair-raising escape from a Nazi P.O.W. camp and subsequent undercover work with the French Maquis."
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Road to Resistance: The Classic of Wartime Escape and Resistance
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132:St John's College, Cambridge
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942:"Obituaries: George Millar"
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365:Croix de Guerre avec Palmes
354:Distinguished Service Order
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613:A White Boat from England
543:My Past Was an Evil River
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486:(1979) – covering 1910–46
480:(1946) – covering 1940–44
472:Un anglais dans le maquis
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178:Clifton Inglis Stockwell
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1132:"Books: Toward Morning"
791:Millar, George (1979).
768:Millar, George (2003).
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727:Oxford University Press
315:Charles George Hardwell
219:Millar enlisted in the
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1152:"Books: P.O.W. Story"
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491:Travel autobiography
50:(DSO) and the French
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674:Waiting in the Night
645:Waiting in the Night
558:Discovers the Amazon
320:He was debriefed by
182:Michael Noel Forsyth
155:, chartered by King
77:Ill Met by Moonlight
22:George Millar DSO MC
1176:. 16 December 1946.
664:16 December 1946 –
146:The Daily Telegraph
1140:. 14 January 1946.
917:on 6 November 2012
871:on 6 November 2012
697:Isabel and the Sea
687:Isabel and the Sea
637:14 January 1946 –
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495:Isabel and the Sea
484:Road to Resistance
460:War autobiography
415:Road to Resistance
411:Isabel and the Sea
338:Maurice Buckmaster
87:Eastern Approaches
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439:Dorchester
138:Journalist
114:Baldernock
108:Early life
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