Contents

Introduction

1 The Ace up Hitler’s Sleeve

2 Back into the Battle

3 Tense Moments

4 A Strange Interrogation

5 Of Good and Evil in their Stars

6 The Long Road to Peenemünde

7 He had been Warned

8 Sentenced for Life

9 Devil’s Work in the Ruin

10 Battle of Wills

11 The Great Strategic Blunder

12 The New Menace

13 Portrait of a Born General

14 ‘The Best-laid Schemes of Mice and Men …’

15 The Armpit of the Tortoise

16 The Lovely Wanton

17 A Nation in the Toils

18 The Great Conspiracy

19 Just Real Bad Luck

20 No Escape

21 A Strange Partnership

22 In the Lion’s Den

23 The Other Side of the Curtain

24 The Devil’s Court

25 In the Cobra’s Lair

26 Out of the Blue

27 The Great Decision

28 In the Hands of a Fiend

29 Death Intervenes

A Note on the Author