The first authoritative account of a well-kept secret: the British Fifth Column and its activities during the Second World War.
Tim Tate is an award-winning documentary film-maker, investigative journalist and author of numerous books of non-fiction, including the best-selling Slave Girl (John Blake, 2009) and Hitler's Forgotten Children (Elliott & Thompson, 2015) telling the story of the largely-secret Nazi Lebensborn programme through the life of one of its victims. He lives in Wiltshire.
Fascinating
*The Observer*
The extent to which the British far right supported Hitler, even
after the outbreak of the second world war, has largely been
suppressed. Now Tim Tate's absorbing study offers a bracing
reappraisal of their sympathies. ... Tate reveals the widespread
existence of a fifth column in Britain, using hitherto unseen
archival material.
*The Observer*
Tim Tate, in Hitler's British Traitors, [explores] the entire grimy
landscape of British treachery during the Second World War and the
astonishing rogues' gallery of traitors working to help Nazi
Germany win. [He makes] excellent use of the vast trove of material
declassified by MI5 in recent years.
*The Times*
[A] fascinating, shocking and -- given our times -- slightly
worrying read
*Sunday Sport*
A brilliant book
*History Hit podcast*
A superb book ... absolutely gripping
*Iain Dale's Book Club podcast*
Tate explores many engrossing accounts of espionage and
counter-espionage uncovered in the archives, as well as the
jaw-dropping ineptitude and complacency of the authorities who,
though all too keen to imprison and execute petty criminals
recruited by German intelligence, displayed a characteristic
restraint when dealing with far more threatening and powerful
traitors. ... Tate's formidable scholarship paints a picture of
Britain during the war that is a far cry from the reassuring story
told about our collective heroism of a nation united under the
banner of Keep Calm and Carry On.
*Morning Star*
An unfailingly readable, darkly revealing book of great
scholarship.
*The Tablet*
[Hitler's British Traitors] shakes the story the nation tells
itself that the British stood alone against Adolf Hitler in 1940
and went on to win the war ... [it] shows that if Hitler's planned
invasion had succeeded after the fall of France he would have found
collaborators as fanatical as those in all the countries the
Wehrmacht had conquered.
*The Critic*
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