Coffee with Hitler Spicer Charles
Coffee with Hitler Spicer Charles How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history’s greatest ‘what ifs’. With support from royalty, aristocracy, politicians and…
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Coffee with Hitler Spicer Charles
How the British might have handled Hitler differently remains one of history’s greatest ‘what ifs’. With support from royalty, aristocracy, politicians and businessmen, they hoped to use the much mythologised Anglo-German Fellowship as a vehicle to civilise the Nazis. Coffee with Hitler tells the astounding and poignant story, for the first time, of a handful of amateur British intelligence agents who wined, dined and befriended the leading National Socialists between the wars.
Charles Spicer draws on newly discovered primary sources, shedding light on the early career of Kim Philby, Winston Churchill’s approach to appeasement, the US entry into the war and the Rudolf Hess affair. A pacifist Welsh historian, a Great War flying ace, and a butterfly-collecting businessman offered the British government better intelligence on the horrifying rise of the Nazis than anyone else.