Camp Z

Camp Z

by Stephen McGinty
Epub (Adobe), Epub (Kobo)
Publication Date: 01/07/2011

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How do you break a man whose secrets could end the war?On 10 May 1941, Rudolf Hess, then the Deputy Fuhrer, parachuted over Renfrewshire in Scotland on a mission to meet with the Duke of Hamilton, ostensibly to broker a peace deal with the British government. After being held in the Tower of London, he was transferred to Mytchett Place near Aldershot on 20 May, under the codename of "Z". The house was fitted with microphones and sound recording equipment, guarded by a battalion of soldiers and codenamed "Camp Z".Churchill's instructions were that Hess should be strictly isolated, with every effort taken to get any information out of him that could help change the course of the Second World War. Stephen McGinty uses documentation, contemporaneous reports, diaries, letters and memos to piece together a riveting account of the claustrophobia, paranoia and high-stakes gamesmanship being played out in an English country house. Camp Z is a "locked room mystery" where the "locked room" is a man's mind that no one can conclude, with any degree of confidence, is sane.
ISBN:
9781743343562
9781743343562
Category:
Warfare & defence
Format:
Epub (Adobe), Epub (Kobo)
Publication Date:
01-07-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Stephen McGinty

Stephen McGinty is an award-winning journalist with the Scotsman newspaper.

He has previously worked for the Glasgow Herald and the Sunday Times, and is the author of the critically acclaimed This Turbulent Priest: The Life of Cardinal Thomas Winning and Churchill's Cigar.

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