Renegades: Hitler's Englishmen - Couverture souple

Weale, Adrian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0751514268 ISBN 13 : 9780751514261

Editeur : Time Warner Paperbacks, 1995

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

At the end of the Second World War, nearly 200 British citizens were under investigation for assisting Nazi Germany. Some have remained notorious, such as William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) and John Amery who went to the gallows for High Treason, but as this meticulously researched study shows, men like Joyce and Amery are only the visible part of a much larger and more intriguing story below the surface. Renegades is drawn entirely from original documentary material, eyewitness accounts and intelligence files. Adrian Weale traces the course of treason in the Second World War from its roots in Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, through the war and subsequent investigations by MI5, up to the trial, imprisonment and in some cases execution of the traitors. Since Renegades was first published in 1994, many files previously restricted by privileged access have been released into the Public Records Office, and a number of other files, including several from MI5, have become available. Adrian Weale has revised his book, incorporating this new material, making Renegades a more comprehensive and authoritative study. Much here will be new to historians, including the first complete account of the British Free Corps - the Waffen-SS unit composed entirely of British subjects - and the identity of all its members, some of whom have been interviewed for this book. Also revealed is the extraordinary career of the conman who joined the Special Air Service and who, after capture by the Germans, informed on his POW camp comrades before volunteering to fight with the Waffen-SS on the Russian front; and in France, the story of the middle-aged British spinster who joined the Gestapo. Though regarded as highly dangerous at the time, German efforts to cultivate traitors in British ranks were for the most part stunningly unsuccessful - not least, as this book reveals, because much of that effort was entrusted to a British Fascist turned double agent at work in the heart of the Third Reich.

Revue de presse :

"Mr Weale has uncovered everything there is to know about the shadowy "British Free Corps"...A fascinating footnote to the history of the war...his style and parts of the book read like an adventure story, with more shady characters than a le Carre novel" (Sunday Telegraph)

"Thoroughly readable and full of curious detail" (Spectator)

"A meticulously researched study which draws on a huge body of material, including closed intelligence files, to chart the careers not only of notorious traitors such as William Joyce and John Amery, but of minor players as well" (The Times)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Time Warner Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0751514268
• ISBN 13: 9780751514261
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 230