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Flight From Reality

By David Stafford

A DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF RUDOLF HESS’S PEACE MISSION TO BRITAIN DURING WORLD WAR TWO.

Shortly after 11p.m. on 10 May 1941, a Scottish ploughman spotted a parachutist floating to the ground in a field just outside Glasgow. He found a burning twin-engine Messerschmitt Bf 110 bomber and an injured officer wearing the uniform of the German air force.

The officer said he was Captain Albert Horn and he had an important message for the Duke of Hamilton.

In reality, he was Rudolf Hess, Deputy Führer and right-hand man to Adolf Hitler.

Interrogations revealed he’d been sent to negotiate a peace deal between Britain and Germany. He was held as a prisoner of war for the next four years and convicted of conspiracy and crimes against peace at the Nuremberg Trials. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Hess’s flight to Britain is one of the most bizarre and mysterious chapters of the Second World War. Some claim Hess’s mission was engineered by British Intelligence; others that Hitler’s deputy died in a plane crash while flying with the Duke of Kent in 1942 and that a double went to trial in Nuremberg.

In Flight from Reality, editor David Stafford has gathered writers from across the world to give their takes on this unique episode — including Hugh Trevor-Roper, John Erickson, Warren Kimball and Len Deighton.

PRAISE FOR DAVID STAFFORD:

‘This is a very readable collection of brief essays.’ Times Literary Supplement

‘Fascinating . . . far more intriguing than the wildest conspiracy theory.’ Scotland on Sunday

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