Spying for Hitler

The Welsh Double Cross

Author(s) John Humphries

Language: English

Genre(s): History

  • September 2012 · 288 pages ·198x129mm

  • · Paperback - 9780708325209
  • · eBook - pdf - 9780708325216
  • · eBook - epub - 9780708326442

About The Book

After Dunkirk the British Army was broken, the country isolated and invasion imminent. German Military Intelligence was sat the task of recruiting collaborators from among Welsh nationalists to sabotage military and civilian installations ahead of the landing. Strategic deception was one of the few weapons left. To fool the Germans into believing Britain was ready and able to repel invaders when in fact it had only the weapons salvaged from Dunkirk, MI5 invented an imaginary cell of Welsh saboteurs led by a retired police inspector.

About the Author(s)

Author(s): John Humphries

John Humphries, a former newspaper editor and foreign correspondent, draws upon previously unavailable documents and sources to shed new light on moments in history ranging from the Chartist Uprising, the Mexican Revolution, Hitler's 'spies', and Freedom Fighters of the 20th century. This is his fifth work of non-fiction.

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