1991, ISBN: 0688086624

[EAN: 9780688086626], [PU: NY. 1991. William Morrow Co.], Jacket, grey & red 1/2 cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding … More...

[EAN: 9780688086626], [PU: NY. 1991. William Morrow Co.], Jacket, grey & red 1/2 cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in near cond. bit of wrinkling to top & bottom of spine, not torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. printing # not given. possible high quality book club edition (no price on dustwrapper). xvi+600p. b&w photo illustrations. 4 b&w maps. 11 appendices. documents. notes & sources. index. world history. world war ii. nazi germany. third reich. conspiracy theory. biography. ~The dramatic flight of Rudolf Hess, Hitler's infamous deputy, to England in May 1941 has been a mystery and a source of controversy for fifty years. The official version maintains that this was the solitary adventure of a madman, unrelated to the course of World War II. But new archival research in Europe and the United States, substantiated by the author's exclusive and unprecedented access to KGB files, reyeals another story~one that shows just how close England came to making a peace deal with Hitler's Germany. In this latest of John Costello's important and highly controversial reexaminations of modern history, Ten Days to Destiny reveals how Hess came to England at Hitler's direction and with the connivance of the British secret services and powerful elements in British society, bearing a serious peace offer that would have allowed England to retain its empire in return for her support for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union. To understand the significance of Hess's mission, Costello takes us back to 1940, to ten critical days during that summer of Dunkirk and the fall of France, when it was unclear whether England would survive to continue the war. "This was their finest hour" was how Winston Churchill described the spirit of the nation, enshrining the myth that his people and government would fight Hitler, whatever the cost. But declassified government archives, private diaries, and captured German documents reveal that Churchill's toughest battles were actually with senior members of his own administration, who had decided the time had come to negotiate a compromise peace. Costello not only traces their secret maneuvering with Berlin (climaxing in Hess's arrival the following year), but also details the desperate cabinet battle Churchill had to wage against them ~ which he came within a hairbreadth of losing. Ten Days to Destiny can truly claim to be not only the first behind~the~scenes account of the agonizing history of 1940, but also the first major historical work to draw from actual KGB documentation. It also reveals that Ambassador Joseph Kennedy was the prime suspect for "The Doctor," the code name given by Hess's staff to his source of British Cabinet secrets. It uncovers the real reason why Hitler halted the advance on Dunkirk and details the German plot to bring the Duke of Windsor back to the throne. And it exposes the masterful cunning of Churchill's Machiavellian exploitation of American Embassy spy Tyler Kent both to silence his enemies and to blackmail President Roosevelt into helping England ~ a supreme gamble that quite literally saved the Allied effort to stop Hitler. These and many other revelations finally unlock the secrets of Hess's mysterious mission: It is a dramatic story, scrupulously researched and rivetingly told, that is certain to rewrite the history of the critical opening phase of World War II., Books<

ISBN: 9780688086626

Examines the mysterious mission of Rudolf Hess. Media > Book, [PU: William Morrow and Company]