For more than 60 years mystery has surrounded the flight to Britain
of Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess. In 1941 the polite, unassuming
character known as 'the acceptable face of Nazism' parachuted from
a Messerschmitt-110, landed on a remote hillside in Scotland and
demanded to see the Duke of Hamilton. Hours earlier, Hess had told
his wife he had a secret mission to accomplish but would be back
home within a day or two. As it happened, he would spend the rest
of his life in jail. The official version of events in both Britain
and Germany was that Hess had suffered a brainstorm, stolen a
Luftwaffe plane and flown it to Scotland believing he could
personally end the war by negotiation. He was obviously a madman,
someone not to be taken seriously. But according to Martin Allen's
view of things, Hess was no madman. Nor had he 'stolen' an aircraft
- he flew to Britain with the enthusiastic endorsement of Adolf
Hitler. They had both been suckered by Winston Churchill and
Britain's security services into thinking they had made contact
with a rebel faction keen to overthrow the British government. This
scenario might sound just as implausible as the official version,
but it does have a lot going for it. Not least is the wealth of
information Allen has pieced together from archives in Britain,
Germany and the US. Many of the documents have previously been
unseen by historians or their significance has not been realized.
Just as tellingly, perhaps, is what the archives do not show. Many
documents that would support the official account of Hess's flight
are strangely absent. A massive cover-up has clearly been
perpetrated, and Martin believes he has the answer as to who and
why. In his previous book, Hidden Agenda, Martin claimed that the
Duke of Windsor was in secret collusion with the Nazis and passing
information to Hitler. His latest revision of history may not cause
as many ripples but it is certainly more complex. Here we have what
was apparently a plot involving the Prime Minister, four Cabinet
ministers, two ambassadors and top-ranking intelligence staff to
hoodwink the German hierarchy. If Martin is right, they succeeded
in a spectacular way - and the consequences were more far-reaching
than either Hitler or Hess could have imagined in the spring of
1941. (Kirkus UK)
At last, new archival discoveries reveal the truth about the German
Deputy-Fuhrer'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-Fuhrer 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 motives. Until now, no one has found the
crucial pieces of evidence which prove that a small group of men
within the British government and intelligence services were in
fact conducting a brilliantly clever plot which was not only to
lead to Hess's flight, but would also have a decisive impact on the
course of the war. Martin Allen's researches in archives in
Britain, Germany and the United States have unearthed many
documents previously undiscovered by historians. The details they
reveal are explosive, and alter our perception not only of the
conduct of the Second World War, but of the secret forces which
shaped post-war Europe and global politics.
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