An account of one of the most bizarre and mysterious chapters of the Second World War, the Deputy Fuhrer's flight to Scotland to negotiate a peace deal with Britain and Germany. A number of conspiracy theories have been created from this peculiar event and in "Flight from Reality" David Stafford has assembled an international group of experts to give a definitive account of Hess's mission that separates the facts from the fiction that has arisen.
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David Stafford is the author of several books on intelligence history, including Britain and European Resistance, Churchill and Secret Service and Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets. He is the Project Director at the Centre for Second World War Studies in the Dept. of History at the University of Edinburgh.
ve account of a bizarre and mysterious chapter in the history of the Second World War.<br><br>May 10, 1941. A Scottish ploughman spotted a parachutist floating to the ground on a field just a dozen miles south of Glasgow. He ran out to find a burning twin-engine Messerschmitt bomber and an injured officer in the uniform of a German Air Force Captain. The aviator asked to be taken to see the Duke of Hamilton for whom, he claimed, he was carrying an important message. The man was none other than Rudolf Hess, Deputy Fuhrer and right-hand man of Adolf Hitler. Hess had not come as Hitler’s emissary but was acting alone in seeking to negotiate a peace deal between Britain and Germany. Held as a prisoner of war and convicted as a war criminal at Nuremberg. Hess spent the rest of his life in a high-security prison in Berlin-Spandau where he committed suicide in 1987, aged 93.
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