{"product_id":"flight-from-reality-rudolf-hess-and-his-mission-to-scotland-1941-9798848340112","title":"Flight From Reality: Rudolf Hess and his mission to Scotland 1941","description":"\u003cb\u003eShortly after 11 pm on 10 May 1941, a Scottish ploughman spotted a parachutist floating to the ground in a field at Floors Farm, a dozen miles south of Glasgow. He ran out to find a burning twin-engine Messerschmitt Bf 110 bomber and an injured officer wearing the uniform of a captain of the German air force.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe aviator identified himself as Captain Albert Horn and asked to be taken to see the Duke of Hamilton for whom, he claimed, he was carrying an important message. In reality, 'Captain Horn' was none other than Rudolf Hess, Deputy Führer and right-hand man of Adolf Hitler. Arrested and interrogated by various government officials, it soon emerged that Hess was seeking to negotiate a peace deal between Britain and Germany. Held as a prisoner of war for the next four years, he was convicted of conspiracy and crimes against peace at the Nuremberg Trials and sentenced to life imprisonment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHess's flight to Britain has remained one of the most bizarre and mysterious chapters in the history of the Second World War and has created a multitude of colourful conspiracy theories. Some have claimed that Hess came as an emissary of Hitler or that his mission was engineered by British Intelligence; others that Hitler's deputy had died in a plane crash while flying with the Duke of Kent in 1942 and that a double went to trial in Nuremberg. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlight from Reality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, editor David Stafford has assembled an international team of experts on this episode, including Hugh Trevor-Roper, John Erickson, Warren Kimball and Len Deighton. The result is the definitive account of Hess's mission that separates fact from fiction and sheds new light on its significance in the history of the Second World War. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eFlight from Reality\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Fascinating ... far more intriguing than the wildest conspiracy theory' - \u003ci\u003eScotland on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid Stafford is the author or editor of several books on intelligence history, including \u003ci\u003eBritain and European Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eChurchill and Secret Service\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRoosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSecret Agent: The True Story of the Special Operations Executive\u003c\/i\u003e. He is Project Director at the Centre for Second World War Studies in the Department of History at the University of Edinburgh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-464682\"\u003eDavid Stafford\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/25\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798848340112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8848340113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS027100\"\u003eWars \u0026amp; Conflicts | World War II | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44691726041325,"sku":"9798848340112","price":14.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_ab8bca46-8075-4723-81e2-f17a3459a861.jpg?v=1703732891","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/flight-from-reality-rudolf-hess-and-his-mission-to-scotland-1941-9798848340112","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}