Valkyrie: An Insider's Account of the Plot to Kill Hitler

Valkyrie: An Insider's Account of the Plot to Kill Hitler

by HansBerndGisevius (Author)

Synopsis

When on July 20, 1944, a bomb,boldly placed inside Hitler's headquarters by Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg, exploded without killing the Fuhrer, the subsequent coup d'etat 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 , is an intimate memoir as riveting as it is exceptional.

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Format: Abridged
Pages: 272
Edition: Abridged
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 08 Jan 2009

ISBN 10: 0306817713
ISBN 13: 9780306817717
Book Overview: Valkyrie : The Plot to Kill Hitler

Author Bio
Hans Bernd Gisevius (1904-1974) was one of the most active conspirators in the July 20, 1944, plot to kill Hitler, and later a prosecution witness at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials.