Throughout World War II, the loyalties of Welsh nationalists frequently came into question and it s long been thought that key figures collaborated with Hitler and the Nazis. In "Spying for Hitler," John Humphries sets the record straight, showing that in fact Welsh nationalists deliberately infiltrated German military intelligence and were instrumental in the creation of MI5 s Double-Cross System, which has been credited with controlling every German agent sent to Britain."
Throughout World War II, the loyalties of Welsh nationalists frequently came into question and it s long been thought that key figures collaborated...
John Hanning Speke s discovery of Lake Victoria in 1858 while on a quest to find the source of the Nile elevated him to the pantheon of heroes of African exploration, alongside David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley. But historians have ignored the part played by the Welsh mining engineer John Petherick in the discovery, largely because Speke branded him a slave trader. In this first biography of Petherick, John Humphries explores whether Petherick was truly a rogue, as he is often portrayed, or the victim of a conspiracy that destroyed his reputation and denied him credit for one of the...
John Hanning Speke s discovery of Lake Victoria in 1858 while on a quest to find the source of the Nile elevated him to the pantheon of heroes of Afri...
What became of Harold Prettyman, a German agent captured by the British during World War Two? Eighty years later, an investigation by reporter Jack Flynt seems to end at a new dormer bungalow with white pebble-dash walls, not the grey stone terraced house in the Welsh valleys from which, according to a recently declassified MI5 file, Prettyman operated a radio transmitter from the attic alerting German U-Boats to Allied shipping movements. Dead ducks are news stories destined for the News Editor’s spike and Flynt suspects he has found one until a letter arrives at the bungalow with the...
What became of Harold Prettyman, a German agent captured by the British during World War Two? Eighty years later, an investigation by reporter Jack Fl...
