Lion's Claw, The

Literature & Fiction

PETER PADFIELD

Genre Fiction

Arrow Books

Guns at sea

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Hugh Evelyn

The battleship era

R. Hart-Davis

The flight of Rudolf Hess, the deputy leader of the Nazi Party, to Scotland in May 1941 remains one of the great unresolved mysteries of the Second World War. Did he come on Hitler's commission--or, as he always maintained, without the Führer's knowledge? Was the man who parachuted out of the Messerschmitt Bf 100 really Hess...or a double? What was his purpose, why was he incarcerated for life in Berlin's Spandau Prison, and was he (as his son alleged) murdered to prevent his revealing an explosive secret? The biographer of Himmler and Dönitz navigates these still swirling controversies with confidence, profiling the man, the milieu, and the uppermost echelons of the Nazi hierarchy. The conclusion: Hess was indeed sacrificed...but he was a most willing victim.

Hess: The Fuhrer's Disciple

Biographies & Memoirs

UNKNO

Rule Britannia: The Victorian and Edwardian Navy

History

Pimlico

War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict, 1939-1945

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

Maritime Power & Dominance West

World

John Murray

Maritime Dominion and the Triumph of the Free World

John Murray Publishers, Ltd.

A portrait of the head of Hitler's SS police and Gestapo draws on diaries, letters, and speeches to describe Himmler's life, the evolution of his beliefs, his role in Nazi Germany, and his impact on the rise and fall of the Third Reich

Himmler: Reichsführer-SS

Military

Henry Holt and Company

In May 1941, Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess flew himself to Scotland, apparently on his own initiative, to open peace negotiations with the British. He was swiftly arrested and prior knowledge of his mission was denied by all sides. Peter Padfield's analysis sheds new light on the mystery, arguing that there is good reason to believe that Hess had both the backing of Hitler and encouragement from Britain, and that he even carried with him a draft peace treaty.

Hess, Hitler and Churchill: The Real Turning Point of the Second World War - A Secret History [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2012] PETER PADFIELD

Icon Books Ltd.

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