The March on London by Charles Whiting

The March on London by Charles Whiting

By December 1944, Britain was denuded of fighting troops. Every man capable of handling a rifle was needed at the front on the Continent. Behind them they had left the lame, middle-aged soldiers or unfit men, many of them engaged in guarding the 250,000 very fit young Germans who were now scattered throughout the British Isles in their POW cages. Even the most determined Nazis among them knew there was no escape - so why try? But since September 1944, when the first German paratroops had started arriving at the cages in large numbers, the mood of these "tame" POWs had begun to change. They had become more truculent and had set up networks of hard-core Nazis and fighting men ("the blacks", as they were called by their British guards), who really ruled the camps behind the backs of the British. For the German High Command in Berlin had infiltrated their agents into all the most important camps in the UK, and it was their task to plan a mass breakout which would coincide with the start of Hitler's last great offensive in the West - the Battle of the Bulge. But this would be no ordinary escape - it was one with a strategic purpose, for the plotters planned no less than a march on London in a determined attempt to capture the capital of the British Empire. This account of the episode is a tale of double-dealing and treachery, which caused intense alarm at that last Christmas of World War II, and which ended in murder and retribution.

Whiting, Charles: - Born in the Bootham area of York, England, he was a pupil at the prestigious Nunthorpe Grammar School, leaving at the age of 16 to join the British Army by lying about his age. Keen to be in on the wartime action, Whiting was attached to the 52nd Reconnaissance Regiment and by the age of 18 saw duty as a sergeant in France, Holland, Belgium and Germany in the latter stages of World War II. While still a soldier, he observed conflicts between the highest-ranking British and American generals which he would write about extensively in later years. After the war, he stayed on in Germany completing his A-levels via correspondence course and teaching English before being enrolled at Leeds University reading History and German Language. As an undergraduate he was afforded opportunities for study at several European universities and, after gaining his degree, would go on to become an assistant professor of history. Elsewhere, Whiting held a variety of jobs which included working as a translator for a German chemical factory and spells as a publicist, a correspondent for The Times and feature writer for such diverse magazines as International Review of Linguistics, Soldier and Playboy. His first novel was written while still an undergraduate, was published in 1954 and by 1958 had been followed by three wartime thrillers. Between 1960 and 2007 Charles went on to write over 350 titles, including 70 non-fiction titles covering varied topics from the Nazi intelligence service to British Regiments during World War II. Charles Henry Whiting, author and military historian died on July 24 2007, leaving his wife and son.

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ISBN 13	9780850522990
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Titel	The March on London
Autor	Charles Whiting
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	1992-02-01
Seitenanzahl	256
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