CAMP Z: THE SECRET LIFE OF RUDOLF HESS.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip (£18.99) to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate b/w floor plans/ views of Mychett Place illustrated cream endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn,xiii-xvipp+1-336pp [paginated] includes author's notes,14 chapters and an epilogue,8pp contemporary b/w auto+biographical photographs in 1 block,between pp144/5,acknowledgements and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication, epigrams, and a contents list/table.
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 Mychett Place near Aldershot on 20 May,under the codename of 'Z'.
Churchill's instructions were that Hess should be strictly isolated, with every effort taken to get any information out of him that might help change the course of the Second World War.During the ensuing months a psychological battle was waged between intelligence officers using the new Freudian techniques of 'dynamic psychologies',and the man who had been a heartbeat away from Hitler.
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 mystery' is a man's mind that no one can conclude,with any degree of confidence,is sane.
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