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1785785613

Hitler's British traitors : the secret history of spies, saboteurs and fifth columnists / Tim Tate.

Author: Tate, Tim.

Publication year: 2019

Media class: Paperback

Classification: 940.5486.

Publisher: London : Icon Books, 2019.

ISBN: 9781785785610 (pbk.) : £10.99

Notes:

Originally published: 2018.

An authoritative account of a well-kept secret: the British Fifth Column and its activities during the Second World War. Drawing on hundreds of declassified official files - many of them previously unpublished - Tim Tate uncovers the largely unknown history of more than 70 British traitors who were convicted, mostly in secret trials, of working to help Nazi Germany win the war, and several hundred British Fascists who were interned without trial on evidence that they were working on behalf of the enemy. Four were condemned to death; two were executed.