James Parris

In the middle of WW2, a refugee from the Nazis, Louis de Wohl, 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 Fuhrer's astrologers were giving him.

Churchill could see de Wohl's worth for himself and de Wohl was made an army captain and employed to pass detailed astrological readings to the War Office and Naval Intelligence. Did senior officers really take the ancient and arcane practice of astrology seriously? And was de Wohl genuine or merely a charlatan?