A BOOK by a Saddleworth author has been snapped up by Britain’s biggest e-book publisher after exploring the “greatest unsolved mystery of the Second World War”.
Jan Needle’s ‘Death Order’ tells the story of the mystery flight by Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess, who was jailed for life at Nuremberg in 1946. 
Hess is said to have committed suicide in Berlin’s Spandau Prison aged 93 but historians have argued the man who died was possibly not Hess and he is unlikely to have committed suicide.
Normally restricted Government papers examined by researchers cast very strong doubts on many aspects of the story.
Jan said: ‘It is unlikely the truth will ever be fully revealed – but the mystery will not go away.
“Historians have researched and written about the case but few believe the official version, that Prisoner Number Seven was indeed Rudolf Hess and he did kill himself.”
In this new version of the book, which is available on Amazon, Jan re-examines the mystery, which prompted Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev to describe it as “the last great secret of the war”.
Jan Needle’s book ‘Death Order’ is available from Amazon for £2.99: http://amzn.to/196VA1u
To find out more, visit his website: www.janneedle.com
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