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Renegades: Hitler's Englishmen (Paperback)

by Adrian Weale (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Pimlico; 2nd Revised edition edition (3 Jan 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0712667644
  • ISBN-13: 978-0712667647
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 207,381 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Renegades is drawn entirely from original documentary material, eyewitness accounts and intelligence files. Adrian Weale traces the course of treason in WWII from it's roots in Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, through the war and investigations by MI5 up to the trial imprisonment and in some cases execution of the traitors.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Rare insight into pro-Nazi Britons, 4 Mar 2002
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This is a careful and considered examination of a highly emotive and potentially distasteful subject, that of British collaboration with Nazi Germany during WW2.

The foreign contingents who decided to fight with Hitler's armies (usually under a broad anti-Communist aegis) are well documented. Less well known is the British Free Corps, a small but fully-fledged unit attached to the Waffen SS. Mainly constituted from pro-fascist POWs, these traitors and their service in the Nazi war machine has long been a shadowy presence in the history of the Second World War.

Adrian Weale's dedicated research has exposed the history of this unit for the first time. His use of sources is thorough, and the text is supported by some extraordinary photographs of members of the British Free Corps in SS uniform sporting their Union Flag insignia.

It would be possible to write a prurient history of this issue, but Weale shows the dysfunctional nature of many of the recruits and their leader, John Amery. The prose is careful and readable, and the author is clearly in command of his material. He does not lose sight of the human stories behind the uniforms, but tells the story of these misguided and mythologised soldiers in all its sorry detail.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Essential reading for students of the SS history, 10 Jun 2004
By Mr. D. J. Walford (Lancashire, England) - See all my reviews
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Ultimatley fascinating account of British soldiers, sailors and civilians who worked for the Germans during World War Two. The book is simple and easy to understand yet it delivers a sound insight into the workings of Nazi Germany why collaberation occurred.

Adrian Weale begins with a background to Inter-war Britain and the growth and development of Fascism, culminating with Oswald Mosley and his BUF. This helps explain why people like Joyce and Amery became the infamous traitors and worked for the Germans. Weale then goes on to document the development of the British Free Corps and the extent to what the SS officers went to to recruit English and British Prisoners of War into the unit with the aim to destroying bolshevism, stopping at nothing, even press-ganging and violence.

The book also has a very interesting chapter of the foreign volunteers who worked for the SS, specifically the Waffen-SS, during the war, these included Danish, Dutch, French, Belgian, Norwegan, Swedish and even Bosnian Muslim peoples and their motivations.

Weale provides a valueble insight into the workings of the German military as well as the actions of British traitors.

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4.0 out of 5 stars very interesting information on a hidden past , 8 Mar 2009
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This review is from: Renegades: Hitler's Englishmen (Hardcover)
very interesting book has a lot of information on the setup and formation of this hidden past.Would have like to have found more about what happened to some of the renegades,worth a read
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