The Hitler-Hess Deception: British Intelligence's Best-Kept Secret of the Second World War
✍ Scribed by Allen, Martin
- Book ID
- 108719602
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 727 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 6000007000
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✦ Synopsis
This edition does not include illustrations. At last, new archival discoveries reveal the truth about the German Deputy-Führer's incredible solo flight to Britain in May 1941, and explain the British government's sixty-year silence as to what the Hess mission was all about. On the night of 10 May 1941, in one of the most extraordinary and bizarre incidents of the Second World War, a Messerschmitt-110 crash-landed on a remote Scottish hillside. Its pilot, who had parachuted to safety, was Rudolf Hess, the Deputy-Führer of the German Reich. Hess's remarkable solo flight was immediately dismissed in both Britain and Germany as the deranged act of a disordered mind. He was disowned by Hitler, and Winston Churchill's government insisted that his unexpected arrival on British soil was of no lasting consequence.Nevertheless, the mysterious circumstances of the flight, and Hess's unbroken silence during fifty subsequent years of imprisonment, have led to endless speculation as to his true...