TRAIL SINISTER
The Autobiography of Sefton Delmer

Sefton Delmer, whose dispatches were probably read by more people than any other British foreign correspondent's in the years before and after World War II, was born and brought up in Berlin, where his father was Professor of English at the University. He speaks and thinks as fluently in German as he does in his native tongue. This gave him, when he came in the 'twenties and 'thirties to live again and work as foreign correspondent of the Daily Express in Germany, a unique insight into, and to a large extent sympathy with, the German character. He himself regards this attribute both as a gift and a curse. Whichever it was, it has enabled him in this book to give the most intimate, revealing and enthralling picture of life in Germany between the two wars ever to have been written, and particularly of the Nazi leaders, all of whom he knew personally.
But the author tells not only of Germany. He lived through the siege of Madrid, he was present during the days of the Saar plebiscite, he attended the Hitler-Mussolini meeting in Venice, he witnessed the rape of Czechoslovakia, he was in fact in every trouble-spot, from Jerusalem to Moscow, in those troubled years. His story abounds in fascinating incidents—told as only a born reporter can tell them—personal, social, political. Tragedy and farce walk hand in hand through the pages, as do the great, the little and the eccentrics. And to the student of history as well as the general public the book will have its particular compulsion. To take only one example, here is new light on the little-known Russo-German armaments conspiracy which began in 1921 and led, under the very noses of the Democracies, to the emergence of a new German air force.
This first volume of Mr. Delmer's autobiography ends with his escape from France in June, 1940.

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The Soul of Hitler : Series of articles published in July 1939 in the Daily Express "H.M.G.'s secret pornographer" : Article by Sefton Delmer Ian Fleming : Secret Memo Sefton Delmer Attack on Morale of German Forces in Norway : Article by Sefton Delmer on Lord Haw Haw