It is based on the subject's own account of his activities, captivity and survival and the subsequent investigations concerning his suspected collaboration with the enemy.
The StarrAffair was a book written by JeanOvertonFuller and published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz.
It tells the story John Renshaw Starr, an officer of the British Special Operations Executive sent to establish the Acrobat Network in north-eastern France during the Second World War.
Subsequently captured, tortured and imprisoned in Fresnes prison, at 84 Avenue Foch and in Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen concentration camps.
John Renshaw Starr (died 1996), was one of two sons of Alfred Demarest Starr (an American) and Ethel Renshaw (English).
After the war John Starr opened a night-club in Hanley, Staffordshire, in partnership with the brothers Alfred and Henry Newton, S.O.E. agents whom he had met during his training and also at the Avenue Foch.
He had a brother, George Reginald Starr, who also a member of S.O.E. His story is told in a book, The StarrAffair, by JeanOvertonFuller.
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