On the night of 1 May 1945 Martin Bormann head of the Nazi Party Chancellery & private secretary to Adolf Hitler fled Fuhrers bunker into the ruins of Berlin. His subsequent disappearance became the source of countless rumours & wild speculation over the years even including a theory that he had been kidnapped by the son of Churchills doctor & Lt Commander Ian Fleming author of the James Bond books & had spent the rest of his life in quiet retirement in the English Home Counties! In The Hunt for Martin Bormann Charles Whiting examines over 50 years of rumours claims & counter-claims to uncover the real fate of one of the most hunted men of the twentieth century. Charles Whiting wrote his first novel in 1953 aged just twenty-six. He went on to be the worlds most prolific author of military books; he has sold in excess of three million in the UK alone & his collective works number around 200. Charles also lived abroad for thirty years working in German chemical factories US fashion companies newspapers magazines universities
- as an associate professor & lecturer
- & spent a long spell in the US army. He died in 2007.