Hitler's Englishman: The Crime of 'Lord Haw-Haw' (Routledge Revivals)

‘Lord Haw-Haw’ (William Joyce) was Hitler’s secret weapon of the airwaves.Nightly through the Second World War Joyce’s nasal tones were transmitted to a delighted if sceptical audience.He had a large and enthusiastic following, who looked upon his catchphrase ‘Jairmany calling’ as the promise of comic relief as sure as that provided by Tommy Handley and the much-loved radio programme It’s That Man Again (ITMA). Joyce, of course, was not a figure of fun; nor was he regarded as one by the British government which twisted and adjusted the law to bring him to a traitor’s death in 1946. Originally published in 1987, in this new approach to the case of William Joyce, Francis Selwyn looks both at the career of Joyce, the Irish-American-cum-Fascist bully-boy, and the changing nature of treason, altered by the events of the Second World War. Was Joyce a traitor? Or was he sent to the scaffold as a necessary sacrifice?Behind the voice of the decadent aristocrat lurked the real William Joyce, a s