Guy Walters

Jonathan Cowley

The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Quest to Bring Them to Justice

Hunting Evil

At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have resonated deeply in twentieth-century history - Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann and Klaus Barbie - not just for the monstrosity of their crimes, but also because of the shadowy nature of their post-war existence, holed up in the depths of Latin America, always one step ahead of their pursuers. The nature of their escape was as gripping as any good thriller. They were aided and abetted by corrupt Catholic priests in the Vatican, they travelled down secret 'rat lines', hid in foreboding castles high in the Austrian alps, and were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. The attempts to bring them to justice are no less dramatic, with vengeful Holocaust survivors, inept politicians, and daring plots to kidnap or assassinate the fugitives. Guy Walters has travelled the world in pursuit of the real account of how the Nazis escaped at the end of the war, the attempts, sometimes successful, to bring them to justice, and what really happened to those that got away. He has interviewed Nazi hunters, former members of Mossad, and poured through archives across the globe to bring this remarkable period of our recent history to dramatic and vivid life.

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Igrzyska w Berlinie

There was something powerful about it, something magnetic. He had witnessed the effect of such uniforms in the newsreels; now he was about to wear one. But this SS uniform -- the uniform proudly worn by so many maniacs and murderers -- bore a Union Jack...It was an insult to King and Country. In November 1943 the Nazis capture British secret agent John Lockhart while he is on a Resistance mission to German-occupied Crete. They give him a stark choice: betray his country or die. In a decision some might consider treason and moral folly, Lockhart acts out of love and strikes a bargain with his captors: in return for his wife, who is interned in a concentration camp, he will change sides. But he is stunned to learn that his mission is to lead the British Free Corps, a clandestine unit of the SS composed of British fascists and renegades culled from POW camps. Aware that he, like them, will be branded a traitor, Lockhart seeks to redeem himself by destroying a terrifying secret weapon that threatens to change the course of history.

A Novel

The Traitor

James Owen

The Second World War was the first truly global conflict and sixty years on its consequences continue to shape the modern world. Season by season The Voice of War charts the course of the central event of the twentieth century using the diaries, letters and memoirs of those who were there, from Russian women fighter pilots to the prisoners of the Japanese to Londoners enduring the Blitz. Their first-hand accounts place us on the ramparts of Colditz, in the hiding places of the Warsaw Ghetto, aboard a dive bomber at Pearl Harbor, with Rommel in the desert and by Churchill's side in Downing Street. Unrivalled in the immediacy, range and power of the experiences it contains, it includes writing by, among others, Joseph Goebbels, Benito Mussolini, Christabel Bielenberg, Noel Coward, Robert Capa, Airey Neave, George Patton, Hermione Ranfurly, Arthur Koestler, James Lees-Milne, Martha Gellhorn, Sophia Loren and Primo Levi. Ambitious, instructive and entertaining, this is the definitive portrait of a world at war.

The Second World War Told by Those Who Fought It

The Voice of War

Na het ineenstorten van het Derde Rijk wist een groot aantal nazi's, waaronder Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Franz Stangl en Klaus Barbie, Europa te ontvluchten. Met hulp en steun van priesters in Rome wisten deze nazikopstukken via goed verborgen sluiproutes te ontsnappen of zich te verstoppen in burchten in de Oostenrijkse Alpen. Guy Walters reisde de hele wereld over om de ontsnappingroutes van de nazikopstukken te achterhalen. En hij onderzocht wat er gebeurde met degenen die wisten te ontsnappen. Ook vertelt hij over de succesvolle en minder succesvolle pogingen om nazi's terecht te stellen. Walters vraagt zich af of het mysterieuze Odessa-netwerk echt heeft bestaan, zet vraagtekens bij de verdiensten van Simon Wiesenthal en onthult de manier waarop sommige nazikopstukken aan hun veroordeling wisten te ontkomen doordat de geheime diensten van de geallieerde landen hen rekruteerden als informant. Voor dit boek heeft Guy Walters uitgebreid gesproken met nazi-jagers, nazi's en geheimagenten. Ook deed hij grondig onderzoek in archieven in Duitsland, Groot-Brittannië, de Verenigde Staten, Oostenrijk en Italië. Al deze informatie verwerkte hij tot een meeslepend boek dat deze belangrijke periode uit de geschiedenis tot leven brengt.

De jacht op het kwaad

In early 1942 the Germans opened a top-security prisoner-of-war camp in occupied Poland for captured Allied airmen. Called Stalag Luft III, the camp soon came to contain some of the most inventive escapers ever known. They were led by Squadron Leader Roger Bushell, code-named 'Big X', who masterminded an attempt to smuggle hundreds of POWs down a tunnel built right under the noses of their guards. The escape would come to be immortalised in the famous film The Great Escape, in which the ingenuity and bravery of the men was rightly celebrated. The plan involved multiple tunnels, hundreds of forged documents, as well as specially made German uniforms and civilian clothing. In this book Guy Walters takes a fresh look at this remarkable event and asks the question, what was the true story, not the movie version? He also examines what the escape really achieved, and the nature of the man who led it. The Real Great Escape is the first account to draw on a newly-released cache of documents from Roger Bushell’s family, including letters from Bushell, that reveals much about this remarkable man, his life and experiences during the war, and the planning of the escape attempt that was to make him famous. The result is a compelling and authoritative re-evaluation of the most iconic escape story of the Second World War.

The Real Great Escape

The 1936 Berlin Olympics brought together athletes, politicians, socialites, journalists, soldiers and artists from all over the world. But behind the scenes, they were a dress rehearsal for the horrors of the forthcoming conflict. Hitler had secretly decided the Games would showcase Nazi prowess and the unwitting athletes became helpless pawns in his sinister political game. Berlin Games explores the machinations of a wide cast of characters, including sexually incontinent Nazis, corrupt Olympic officials, transvestite athletes and the mythic figure of Jesse Owens. By illuminating the dark, controversial recesses of the world's greatest sporting spectacle, Guy Walters throws shocking new light on the whole of Europe's troubled pre-war period.

How Hitler Stole the Olympic Dream

Berlin Games

From the author of Hunting Evil comes the story of the most famous prison break in history. In 1942 the Germans built a 'break-out-proof' POW to house serial escapee prisoners. Little did they know that they were putting 250 of the most talented escape artists under one roof. The result was a brilliantly masterminded plan to smuggle hundreds of prisoners from under the noses of the German prison guards. This incredibly complex plan involved multiple tunnels, hundreds of forged documents, as well as specially made German uniforms and civilian clothing. The escape was so intricately planned that surely nothing could go wronga Guy Walters tells this exhilarating tale with unprecedented detail and insight. With access to never before seen information this will be the definitive study on this great historical moment.

February 1945. In his bunker in Berlin, Hitler makes a desperate decision. He will deploy the V3 - a weapon so secret that its lethal nature is unclear even to the slave labourers constructing it deep beneath the Channel Island of Alderney. June 1990. Workmen on Alderney mysteriously start to fall sick. Journalist Robert Lebonneur believes he knows why. But the closer he gets to the truth, the more he realises he is up against the same deadly forces that caused so much upheaval nearly half a century ago...

The Occupation

It is 1943. British SOE agent Captain John Lockhart is in Crete, fighting with the Resistance. Captured by the Germans, Lockhart faces a stark choice, between death and betrayal of his country. Concealing his true motives, Lockhart makes a bargain: in return for the life of his imprisoned wife, he will work with the Germans. When his mission is revealed, Lockhart is stunned. He is to lead a unit of the Waffen SS made up of British fascists and renegades culled from POW camps: the British Free Corps, Lockhart takes command, but he has an audacious plan to free his wife and other innocent victims of the war - whatever the personal cost.

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