Double Standards

by Picknett, Lynn; Prince, Clive; Prior, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780751532203
• ISBN10: 0751532207
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-05
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Summary

For over 60 years, there has been an unprecedented cover-up by both the British Establishment and successive generations of historians about the flight of Hitler's Deputy Rudolf Hess to Scotland in May 1941. It has long been dismissed as the misguided attempt of a madman to make contact with a non-existent British peace party. Based on entirely new material from eyewitnesses, hitherto inaccessible archives, and intelligence sources,Double Standardsreveals that despite official denials, Hess flew to Britain with Hitler's full knowledge; that there is is substantial evidence that the prisoner who died in Spandau prison was not the real Rudolf Hess; and that Winston Churchill guilefully used Hess to influence Hitler and change Britain's fortunes in the war.

Author Biography

Picknett & Prince write on the subject of religious & historical mysteries & conspiracies. Stephen Prior, political historian, has had an interest in Rudolf Hess since 1969. They discovered their mutual fascination with the story of Rudolf Hess when they met in Scotland in 1998.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Introduction	xvii
Judgement Day	1	(17)
Behind the Myth	18	(58)
Journey into Conflict	76	(49)
The Network is Activated	125	(42)
Into the Unknown	167	(26)
The Capture of Alfred Horn	193	(30)
The Aftermath	223	(40)
By Royal Appointment	263	(29)
The Secret Armistice	292	(38)
Sanity and Insanity	330	(23)
From Decoy to Doppelganger	353	(24)
Death on Eagle's Rock	377	(33)
Reassembling the Pieces	410	(26)
The Hamlet Syndrome	436	(16)
Free at Last	452	(41)
The Hess Alternative	493	(12)
Afterword	505	(6)
Notes	511	(39)
Bibliography	550	(11)
Index	561