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Author:

Orbach, Danny, author.

Title:

The plots against Hitler / Danny Orbach.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xvi, 406 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Hitler, Adolf,--1889-1945--Assassination attempts.
Heads of state--Germany--Biography.
Anti-Nazi movement--Germany--History--20th century.
Opposition (Political science)--Germany--History--20th century.
Assassins--Germany--History--20th century.
Biographies.
Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Opposition in flames -- "That damned mare!" : the army top-brass scandal -- The officer, the mayor and the spy -- "In the darkest colors" : the decision of General Beck -- The bird and its cage : first attempt at coup d'état -- Without a network : the lone assassin -- The point of no return : pogrom and war -- The spirit of Zossen : when networks fail -- Signs in the darkness : rebuilding the conspiracy -- On the wings of thought : networks of imagination -- Brokers on the frontline : the new strategy -- War of extermination : the conspirators and the Holocaust -- Flash and liqueur bottles : assassinations attempts in the East -- Codename U-7 : rescue and abyss -- Count von Stauffenberg : the charismatic turn -- Thou shalt kill : the problem of tyrannicide -- A wheel conspiracy : the Stauffenberg Era -- The final showdown : July 20, 1944 -- The shirt of Nessus -- Motives in the twilight -- Networks of resistance -- Epilogue : knights in dirty armor : "heroes of the resistance and us".

ISBN:

0544714431 (hardcover)
9780544714434 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2015043037

Locations:

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TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

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BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

SCPC074 -- Hudson Public Library (Hudson)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

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HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)