Talking to Rudolf Hess
Published on 26. December 2010
224 pages
978-0-7524-6249-3 (ISBN)
Description
Rudolf Hess was Adolf Hitler's Deputy Fuehrer until, in 1941, he flew to Scotland, ostensibly to negotiate peace between Germany and Britain. Captured by the British, he was held for the rest of the War, before being convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials in 1946. Desmond Zwar collaborated with Col. Burton C. Andrus, who was Commandant of Nuremberg Prison during the Trials, on his book The Infamous of Nuremberg, and with Col. Eugene K. Bird, US Governor of Spandau Prison (where Hess was held for over forty years), on The Loneliest Man in the World. For reasons of practicality, neither of these books told the full story, which is now revealed for the first time in Talking to Rudolf Hess. As well as his interviews with Hess and others, Zwar tells the story of how this book came to be written, including how Hess hid proofs in his underpants, how Bird was sacked by the US Army and how the CIA tried to recover the transcripts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
File size
2,28 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-6249-3 (9780752462493)
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Desmond Zwar
Talking to Rudolf Hess
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06/2010
The History Press Ltd
€42.31
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Person
DESMOND ZWAR is a journalist and author, and has written eighteen non-fiction books. He was the ghost-writer of Burton C. Andrus's The Infamous of Nuremberg, about the Nazi war criminals tried there, and collaborated with Eugene K. Bird on The Loneliest Man in the World, about Hess specifically. He lives in Australia.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- CHAPTER 1 : NUDES ON HORSEBACK
- CHAPTER 2 : THE NAZIS ARRIVE
- CHAPTER 3 : GOERING FROM THE GRAVE
- CHAPTER 4 : UNDERSTANDING HESS
- CHAPTER 5 : COLONEL BIRD - REPORTER
- CHAPTER 6 : HESS'S DECISION
- CHAPTER 7 : I KISS YOUR HAND
- CHAPTER 8 : TWENTY YEARS OF PAIN
- CHAPTER 9 : INSIDE HESS'S CELL
- CHAPTER 10 : TRICKING THE SHRINKS
- CHAPTER 11 : PUNISHHIM!
- CHAPTER 12 : ON THE BRINK OF WAR
- CHAPTER 13 : THAT CUNNING CHURCHILL
- CHAPTER 14 : THEY'RE OUT!
- CHAPTER 15 : I AM HARMLESS NOW
- CHAPTER 16 : DEAR DOG .
- CHAPTER 17 : SMUGGLERS AND SPOOKS
- CHAPTER 18 : HE WAS MURDERED!
- AFTERWORD : THE LAST BIRD INTERVIEW
- Copyright
- Plates
