Buy this book on-line KESSLER,LEO (pseud Charles Whiting,aka Duncan Harding): : BETRAYAL AT VENLO: The Secret Story of Appeasement and Treachery,1939-45LONDON.LEO COOPER,1991. ISBN 0850522005.
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3-211pp [paginated] includes author intro,4 Parts comprising 5 chapters each to Pts 1-3,6 chapters+Cover-up to Pt 4; 8pp contemporary b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 4pp apiece,comprising 18 photographs in total; between pp70/1 and pp134/5 respectively,sources and an index.
Plus [unpaginated]half-title+title pages,dedication,b/w map (Germany-occupied Europe,Sept 1939) to recto of Pt 1 separator page,and other Pts
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In 'Betrayal at Venlo' there are no
heroes,just victims.Sometimes the victims deserve their fate - like SS General Reinhard Heydrich,the
'man with the iron heart',as Hitler called him,a ruthless opportunist who dealt out death simply for his own advancement.Sometimes the victims deserve a better fate - like
Johann Georg Elser,the simple German
carpenter who tried to kill Hitler and paid the price for his failure.
Even the ones who Destiny ruled should die in bed did not altogether
escape.To the day of their deaths they were burdened with a great secret which lay behind that Betrayal at Venlo.It forced them into other betrayals,cover-ups,pay-offs.Treachery generated ever more treacheries. In this book Leo Kessler tells for the first time the real secret behind the celebrated kidnapping of Britain's leading Intelligence agents,Captain Sigismund Payne Best and Major Richard Stevens,in November,1939.He also discloses the terrible revenge the British Intelligence Service took on the German kidnappers.No wonder that the
government files on what happened on
that lonely road outside the Dutch border city of Venlo over half a century ago (then 1991) now are still closed till the year 2015.
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