Daring Venture : Rudolf Hess and the Ill-Fated Peace Mission of 1941.
Title:
Daring Venture : Rudolf Hess and the Ill-Fated Peace Mission of 1941.
Author:
Raina, Peter.
ISBN:
9783035305890
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (294 pages)
Series:
Documents diplomatiques français
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter One A Magnificent Sight -- Chapter Two Why did Hess want to speak to the Duke of Hamilton? -- Chapter Three The Duke Meets the Reichsminister -- Chapter Four The Führer's Rage -- Chapter Five Ivone Kirkpatrick Meets Rudolf Hess -- Chapter Six Kirkpatrick Meets Hess: Second Interview - Further Peace Proposals -- Chapter Seven Kirkpatrick Meets Hess: Third Interview - Additional Conditions -- Chapter Eight The Frustrations of the Deputy Führer -- Chapter Nine The Hess Case Raised in the House of Commons -- Chapter Ten Peace Proposal: Anglo-German Accord, 9 June 1941 -- Chapter Eleven Peace Proposal: Alliance Against Bolshevism, 6 September 1941 -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- 1. Letter from Rudolf Hess to Adolf Hitler, 14 June 1941. -- 2. Statement by Rudolf Hess on the Roosevelt-Churchill joint declaration of 12 August 1941. -- 3. Letter from Rudolf Hess to the Duke of Hamilton, 19 May 1941. -- 4. Peace Proposals by Rudolf Hess delivered personally to Lord Beaverbrook, 9 September 1941. -- Sources -- Index.
Abstract:
At the height of the Second World War, Hitler's Deputy, Rudolf Hess, made a dramatic solo flight to the British Isles. His arrival there was sensational news - and it baffled everyone. Why had he come? Hess claimed he had flown to Britain entirely of his own initiative and was on a personal mission of peace. But so unlikely was the success of such an appeal in Churchill's entrenched Britain that historians continue to wonder at his motives. In this book, Peter Raina publishes, for the first time, complete texts of Hess's 'peace proposals' and a treatise he wrote in captivity outlining how he saw Nazi Germany's role in Europe. These texts throw considerable light on Hess's mission and also on how the Nazi leadership saw their programme of expansion and their relations with Britain. Disconcertingly single-minded and an unashamed disciple of Hitler, Hess was at heart an idealist. His friend and confidant Albrecht Haushofer was an idealist of a different kind, and joined the German Resistance Movement. The frame story of this book relates how the two men moved to their tragic ends.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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