Op JB: The Last Great Secret of the Second World War by Christopher Creighton

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Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some light creasing at top edge and at spine. Interior and binding are excellent.

Millions of words have been written about the fate of Martin Bormann, Hitler's indispensable private secretary, and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, who vanished at the end of the Second World War. In October 1946 the Nazi war criminal was condemned to death in absentia at Nuremberg, but he was never found or brought to justice.

Some historians claim he died near the Weidendamm Bridge, in the ruins of Berlin, on the night of 1-2 May 1945. Others believe he escaped from Germany to South America, where he lived and died. In 1973, a court in Frankfurt pronounced him officially dead.

Christopher Creighton now reveals that on the final night and day of the war, as the Soviet armies closed in on the capital of the Third Reich, Bormann was spirited away from Berlin by a Commando raiding party, led by Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, and himself. The team spirited their captive down the waterways to meet the Allies on the River Elbe, and by mid-May 1945, Bormann was safe in England, where he assumed a new identity.