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Valkyrie : an insider's account of the plot to kill Hitler / Hans Bernd Gisevius ; translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston ; foreword by Allen W. Dulles ; introduction by Peter Hoffmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gisevius, Hans Bernd, 1904-1974.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Attempted assassination--Germany--20th century.
- Attempted assassination.
- Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- Germany.
- Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945--Assassination attempt, 1944 (July 20).
- Hitler, Adolf.
- Schenk von Stauffenberg, Klaus Philipp, Graf, 1907-1944.
- Schenk von Stauffenberg, Klaus Philipp.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st abridged ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press/Perseus Books, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When on July 20, 1944, a bomb-boldly placed inside Hitler's headquarters by Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg- exploded without killing the Führer, the subsequent coup d'état against the Third Reich collapsed. The conspirators were summarily shot or condemned in show trials and sadistically hanged. One of the few survivors of the conspiracy was Hans Bernd Gisevius, who had used his positions in the Gestapo and the Abwehr (military intelligence) to further the anti-Nazi plot. Valkyrie, an abridgment of Gisevius's classic insider's account To the Bitter End,
- Contents:
- Contents; Author's Preface to the Original Edition; Foreword to the Original Edition by ALLEN W. DULLES; Introduction to the 1998 Edition BY PETER HOFFMANN; 1 Toward the Catastrophe-September 1939 to July 1944; The First Feelers; Three Critical Weeks; The Zither Player; The Opposition; Oppositional Circles; Groups and Individuals; Fruitless Peace Feelers, Useless Warnings; Wasted Years; Severe Setbacks; The New Dynamism; 2 Too Late-July 20, 1944; Prelude; July 20, 1944; 3 Escape to the Future; Epilogue; Index
- Notes:
- This is an abridged edition of the full edition of To the bitter end first published in Cambridge, Massachussetts in 1947 and republished by Da Capo Press in 1998 with a new introduction by Peter Hoffmann. Originally published in German as Bis zum bittern Ende in 1946.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7867-2714-4
- OCLC:
- 792687278
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