This is the story of a secret war, not waged by Britain and her allies, but by diverse groupings of British and American politicians - many of whom were Fabians - and of French and Italian politicians, all from the resistance movements. Despite their diversity they had one aim, the destruction of the nation state, and one relentless commitment, to a politically unified and socialist continent. "How is it possible to persuade a nation state, with over a thousand years of independence, to hand over its ability to govern itself to another power?" That is what has been happening since Britain joined the EEC 25 year ago and that is one of the searching questions posed in this explosive book. In "Britain Held Hostage", Lindsay Jenkins, who for 10 years was a senior civil servant in the Ministry of Defence, shows how successive Prime Ministers and politicians have either failed to understand the true nature of the EU or, knowing its real purpose and destination, have deliberately lied to the people of Britain and the Commonwealth. She proves in this compelling, alarming and readable book how a small group of young British and American politicians, who met at the peace talks at the end of the First World War, took advantage of the political chaos created by the next war to begin a new European State, a first cousin to the Soviet Union. Today, with EMU only months away all the building blocks are nearly in place, though it has taken over 40 years, much longer than the pioneers believed. One police force, europol, is around the corner; one legal system (ending British trial by jury and habeas corpus) has been planned in detail and in secret. Already British law is subservient to EU law. The last - and most contentious - piece of the jigsaw will be one army under one command foreshadowed in eurocorps. Federalists believe the EU will soon be strong enough politically to dismantle NATO though they pay lip service to it now. Jean Monnet explained the first attempt at a European Defence Community when the Korean War threatened world peace, 'We could no longer wait, as we had once planned for political Europe to be the culminating point of a gradual process, since its joint defence was inconceivable without a joint political authority from the start.' The EDC failed because of French fears of a rearmed Germany. French fears can no longer contain German ambitions. Today Germany is dominant in the EU and has been its chief paymaster since 1957 and the Treaty of Rome. Those who once hoped for a socialist regional government in Europe, a stage beyond the nation state, now have to recognise that, since German reunification, power has passed to Bonn - and soon to Berlin. The aims of Kaiser Wilhelm, built on Prussian control of Germany, and of Adolf Hitler may now be realised. Many people scoff at the suggestion of striking similarities between Hitler's plans for Europe and today's German-dominated EU, yet a close examination of the parallels outlined in this book, makes frightening reading. The author reveals how many of the men who served Hitler managed to survive. 'Only in the highest ranking Nazis were removed...Most who served in the wartime Reichsbank quickly returned to its successor, the Bundesbank. In the 1951 German Foreign office, 134 out of 383 officials and employees were former Nazi party members...So it was in most other walks of life. All danced to the new tune, but the ideas practised by the Nazis did not die.'