On May 10, 1941 Rudolf Hess, former Deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich, made an extraordinary lone flight to Britain. Why did the British government, instead of treating the incident as a propaganda coup, shroud the Hess affair in a web of official secrecy?
Where did these powerful formations come from? How long had this secret army existed and had Stalin refused to commit them even when Hitler's Armies were at the gates of Moscow?
