Test pilot John Jo Lancaster strode across the ground at RAF Bitteswell in Leicestershire on May 30, 1949, the sun warm on his face and the blustery wind rippling his jet-black hair.
In the years before the Second World War – and even after fighting had broken out – King George VI had to confront admirers of Adolf Hitler uncomfortably close to home. Alexander Larman investigates what made members of the upper classes of Britain incline towards appeasement, and how far they were willing to go in their support of the Nazis