How British Intelligence Plotted to Read Hitler's Mind

In the darkest days of the Second World War, as Europe fell under Nazi domination and Britain faced invasion, Louis de Wohl, a 36-year-old refugee from Germany, made a curious offer to British Intelligence. Based on the widely held belief that Hitler’s every action was guided by his horoscope, de Wohl claimed he could reveal precisely what advice the Führer’s astrologers were giving him. Rather than dismissing de Wohl out of hand as a crank, senior intelligence officers and chiefs of staff of th