Second World War
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After Dunkirk, the British Army was broken, the country isolated and invasion imminent. German Military Intelligence was sat the task of recruiting collaborators from among Welsh nationalists to sabotage military and civilian installations ahead of the landing. Strategic deception was one of the few weapons left. To fool the Germans into believing Britain was ready and able to repel invaders when in fact it had only the weapons salvaged from Dunkirk, MI5 invented an imaginary cell of Welsh saboteurs led by a retired police inspector. This is the true, action-packed account of how a bogus Welsh nationalist infiltrated German Military Intelligence during the Second World War.
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This book will appeal to students of, as well as those with a general interest in, the history of the Second World War, the role of nationalists, and espionage aficionados.
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"A John le Carré-style spy thriller with a difference—it’s all true! John Humphries lifts the lid on the enduring suspicion that Welsh nationalists spied for Germany during the Second World War. Hitler promised Home Rule if Wales helped the Nazis to win. A retired Swansea police inspector was recruited to sabotage the British war effort; a U-Boat was sent to land explosives on a secluded beach; and three Cuban saboteurs arrived aboard a fishing boat. ‘Spying for Hitler’ even has a twist in the end. Humphries, a former newspaper editor, has applied his undoubted journalistic skills to solving one of the outstanding mysteries of the last war, one that cast a dark shadow over a resurgent nationalist movement. A gripping read, meticulously pieced together from MI5 and German Military Intelligence sources.”
- Terry Breverton, Publisher and Author
Author Biography
John Humphries is former editor of the Western Mail, and the author of several works of non-fiction, concerning revolutionary events such as the Chartist Uprising (The Man from the Alamo), the Mexican Revolution (Gringo Revolutionary), and the 1960s/70s Welsh terrorist campaign (Freedom Fighters).
University of Wales Press
University of Wales Press believes in supporting and disseminating scholarship from and about Wales to a worldwide audience. They mainly publish books in the humanities, arts and sciences.
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Bibliographic Information
- Publisher University of Wales Press
- Publication Date September 2012
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780708325209 / 0708325203
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 19.98 GBP
- Pages288
- ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Page size20
- SeriesNone
- Reference CodeBDZ0016927263
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