Kill The Kaiser

Bizarrely, it seems that even four days after the RAF attempt to kill him, nobody had informed him or his aides about the raid on his secret Western Front residence. Indeed, the diary of a senior adviser, records a discussion in which they reflected on how dangerous it was where they were by the side of a large ammunition store and how it would be better to return to the safety of the chateau. In the end, however, they just moved a few miles away.

Now that the Allies knew he had been staying there, it had obviously become a potentially very dangerous place for him to base himself. The attack has remained largely unknown since it took place exactly years ago.

Wilhelm II, German Emperor

The British and the French obviously did not want to tell the world about a failed mission — and, of course, the Germans did not want to advertise the fact that their Emperor was still alive due only to good luck. Knowledge of some aspects of the attack lived on in and around the village of Trelon and in the memories of the descendants of some of those pilots and others involved. So who was it in Britain who actually authorised the attack? But there is no proof that he did so, or even that he knew about it beforehand.

• Coffee Bar Cowboy;
• Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victorias Reign.
• Meera and the Surprise Pet (The Adventures of Meera Book 5);

After all, it was an accusation of state complicity in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand - not even of a head of state - that had triggered World War I in the first place. The raid on Trelon in is therefore potentially unique — and an aberration from normal political and military convention. The second mystery is the timing of the raid. Was it triggered by German military success in March, April and May, Was it therefore an act of Allied desperation?

Or had it, in principle, been envisaged long before — only to be carried out when appropriate intelligence information came to light? But the third mystery is a more mundane tactical one - but in a sense equally interesting. Why did the RAF attack in single file, when they might have been expected to realise that smoke would risk compromising a low level single file approach?

The Untold Story of Britain’s Secret Mission to Murder the Kaiser in 1918

Hitler legitimates the military aggression against Poland in his speech at the Kroll Opera House in New addresses of people whose houses were destroyed during bombing scribbled outside a ruined house in Germany in An aerial photograph of Hiroshima, shortly after the 'Little Boy' atomic bomb was dropped in Free City of Danzig, a semi-autonomous city-state which was in existence between and , as seen on Aug.

A motorcyclist of the 1st Canadian Reconnaissance Squadron enjoys a cup of tea during an break in the day's work in A squadron of Germany's Heinkel He bombers on mission against enemy targets in October Members of a propaganda company within the battle zone report the events during the campaign in Poland in September Polish Jewish resistance women, captured after the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, in Soldiers from the Commonwealth of Nations fighting for Great Britain as prisoners of war on their way to a German compound in The Enola Gay bomber lands back on Tinian island after dropping the atom bomb on Hiroshima in German soldiers watching the battle at the Eastern Front unfold at the exit of a bunker on Dec.

Hitler inspecting a group of SA Sturmabteilung members in Germany in SA was the paramilitary wing of the Nazi party. Horia Sima, a Romanian leader of the 'Iron Guards' organisation, leaves the organisations headquarter after a commemoration ceremony in Bucharest in Behind Sima are representatives of the German embassy. A French soldier investigates the pile of footwear belonging to victims near the crematorium at Struthof Concentration Camp near Strasbourg, Alsace, France.

Polish Jewish resistance women and children, captured after the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto in Soldiers and officers of the Volkhov and Leningrad Fronts meet after managing to open a narrow land corridor in the Siege of Leningrad.

Britain tried to kill Kaiser Wilheim in 1918 with secret RAF bombing raid, reveals archives

The chateau still stands — and is today a popular local tourist attraction. John Watts, the grandson of one of the RAF airmen involved in the raid, believes that much more information on the raid must still exist in as yet un-studied files in archives in Britain, France and possibly Germany.

Britain to throw away more than two million kilos of cheese this Christmas. No-deal Brexit plans put 3, troops on standby. German railroad low loaders with new tanks on the way to the Eastern Front in British children evacuated from an unidentified location on Sept. Jews are deported in open cattle carriages in Warsaw, circa Detonation of the atomic bomb over Nagasaki. A German soldier in A German watch column in Paris, France, circa A boy holding a stuffed toy animal amid ruins following German aerial bombing of London in Grenadiers of the Waffen-SS carrying artillery grenades in German submarine in the polar sea in A group of people set for evacuation from London in Piled-up shoes of Holocaust victims in one of the concentration camps.

German troops enter Warsaw in Germans advance toward Kasserine in Tunisia in February Russian soldiers captured by Germans during an interrogation in German troops positioned in Warsaw, Poland, on Sep. A war memorial in Russia in The destroyed monastery of Monte Cassino in Italy in April Jewish prisoners stand in order, circa Bombs in a weapons factory in A soldier during a meal, pictured in Soviet Katyusha rockets on the Eastern Front in German navy celebrates Christmas Eve aboard a U-Boat in Crew of the Enola Gay, before departing for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in Field kitchen in a train handing out food to soldiers on Aug.

Explosion after atomic bombing over Nagasaki in A German soldier ducks down during an explosion in Russia in War correspondent and novelist Ernest Hemingway during the war in A young Russian after the liberation of Dachau concentration camp in Germany in German soldiers celebrate Christmas in their quarter at the Eastern Front in Reaching for the Sky Scott Addington. Sound of Hunger Dr. In midsummer , a top-secret mission was set in motion to kill Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Britain tried to kill Kaiser Wilheim in with secret RAF bombing raid, reveals archives

It was thought that killing the German head of state and commander-in-chief would serve as a mortal blow to the German forces, and that they would collapse very quickly after the assassination. The implications of this secret attack raise many explosive new historical questions.

Exactly who ordered the attack? Was the King informed of the attempt to kill his royal cousin? Did Prime Minister Lloyd George know? A century later, no one is certain—all that can be known for sure is that someone in the government must have sanctioned the plan. Wilson has woven an exciting and well-paced historical novel to mark the centennial of this plot. The story explores areas rarely examined: