- Hardcover: 277 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press (1978)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312083017
- ISBN-13: 978-0312083014
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14.2 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,143,997 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Germany 1945 - the dying days of Hitler's Third Reich - and a Waffen-SS commando captain, betrayed by his own side, goes on the run with a list of western traitors and Nazi sympathisers unknowingly acting as a pawn in a last-ditch plot to drive a wedge between the invading Allied nations. To prevent a split with the Russians, British Intelligence must destroy the original list hidden in Wewelsburg Castle in north Germany, the headquarters of Himmler's SS and modelled on King Arthur's `Camelot'.
Who better to lead a suicidal attack on an SS castle than a rogue SS commando? --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I had forgotten how good Duncan Kyle was in packing a huge amount of research into his novels, without slowing the pace which every good thriller should have, or clogging up the plot.
In "Black Camelot" he mixes real chaarcters and incidents with well-drawn fictional heroes and villains and an outrageous plot with connsumate skill. In the dog days of WW2 a last-ditch attempt by Nazi Intelligence is made to try and split the invading Russians from their Anglo-American allies, using a "White List" (as opposed to a Black List) of known Nazi sympathisers as well as details of western industrial corporations who have not only profited from the war but continued to trade with Hitler's Germany throughout. To plant the "White List" without it appearing to be a counter-intelligence ploy, a wounded SS commando officer is selected to deliver it to contacts in Sweden and then immediately declared a traitor by the Gestapo. Furious at being used as a pawn in the spying game, Haupsturmfuhrer Rasch goes on the run and with the help of a disreputable Irish journalist escapes to neutral Ireland. This ill-matched pair then begin to blackmail the British industrialists on the "White List" but are soon captured by British Intelligence. To save themselves they agree to participate in an audacious raid into Germany to destroy the original White List, which just happens to be housed in Heinrich Himmler's personal castle, dedicated to the myths and legends of the SS and based on King Arthur's Camelot.
Kyle mixes fact with fiction at a break-neck pace, the convoluted plot coming to a head in a bloody shoot-out as Himmler's bizarre castle (which really exists) is stormed by a squad of SS deserters now in the pay of Britiah and American Intelligence. Although over thirty yeras old this still holds up as a cracking thriller and one has to admire Duncan Kyle's nerve in making his protagonist a stubborn, arrogant and professionally violent SS officer.
In "Black Camelot" he mixes real chaarcters and incidents with well-drawn fictional heroes and villains and an outrageous plot with connsumate skill. In the dog days of WW2 a last-ditch attempt by Nazi Intelligence is made to try and split the invading Russians from their Anglo-American allies, using a "White List" (as opposed to a Black List) of known Nazi sympathisers as well as details of western industrial corporations who have not only profited from the war but continued to trade with Hitler's Germany throughout. To plant the "White List" without it appearing to be a counter-intelligence ploy, a wounded SS commando officer is selected to deliver it to contacts in Sweden and then immediately declared a traitor by the Gestapo. Furious at being used as a pawn in the spying game, Haupsturmfuhrer Rasch goes on the run and with the help of a disreputable Irish journalist escapes to neutral Ireland. This ill-matched pair then begin to blackmail the British industrialists on the "White List" but are soon captured by British Intelligence. To save themselves they agree to participate in an audacious raid into Germany to destroy the original White List, which just happens to be housed in Heinrich Himmler's personal castle, dedicated to the myths and legends of the SS and based on King Arthur's Camelot.
Kyle mixes fact with fiction at a break-neck pace, the convoluted plot coming to a head in a bloody shoot-out as Himmler's bizarre castle (which really exists) is stormed by a squad of SS deserters now in the pay of Britiah and American Intelligence. Although over thirty yeras old this still holds up as a cracking thriller and one has to admire Duncan Kyle's nerve in making his protagonist a stubborn, arrogant and professionally violent SS officer.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Himmler's SS Occult castle makes great reading!!
2 Jan 2007
Format:Paperback
The subject of this book is the Wewelsburg Castle of Germany. It was here Himmler met with his top 12 SS Obergruppenfuhrer and possible conducted occult rituals. There were two rooms built in the castle with ritual like symbolism. Wewelsburg plays a big part in my own novel, Out Came Blood and Water, which will come soon. Anyhow, this book begins with a plot to get the Soviets to go against the Allies by giving them a list of Nazi supporters in Britain. The plan fails, and the SS man assigned to do it hooks up with a British reporter and they use the list for blackmail. Through a series of events, Wewelsburg gets into the mix and the climax is great. Time magazine called the ending "...one of the best siege narratives since The Guns of Navarone." This book is unlike most of Kyle's work, but nonetheless is wonderful.
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