Those amongst us, who, in the last year of secondary school, studied the Second World War, probably remember a rather dark and extremely controversial event: the flight of Hess (Rudolf Hess), in May 1941, from Germany to the United Kingdom, on board his Messerschmitt. The story of this flight is told in a book, The Flight of Rudolf Hess, published many years ago and before his death, in 1987, at the age of 93, in Spandau prison in suspicious circumstances. Fewer of us would have heard talk of yet another