We are thrilled to announce that Katie Fulford has sold UK and British Commonwealth (excluding Canada) and audio rights for Charles Spicer’s debut title, Coffee with Hitler: The British Amateurs Who Tried to Civilise the Nazis to Editorial director Sam Carter at Oneworld! Publishing in September 2022.
Coffee with Hitler tells the story of how a handful of British amateur spies, under the guise of the Anglo-German Fellowship, wined, dined and befriended some of the most senior Nazis.
The synopsis explains:
"The British government’s aloofness had alienated the German leaders fuelling their appetite for conflict. Far from appeasing the regime, this group gathered alarming intelligence that showed Neville Chamberlain’s foreign policy as bound to lead to war. These were neither career diplomats nor professional intelligence agents but ranged from a pacifist Welsh historian and a Great War flying ace to an Old Etonian butterfly collector. The book draws on newly discovered sources that reveal Winston Churchill’s true feelings about the state of play on the eve of war."