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Author:

Gisevius, Hans Bernd, 1904-1974.

Title:

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.

Edition:

1st abridged ed.

Publisher:

Da Capo Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xv, 256 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Hitler, Adolf,--1889-1945--Assassination attempt, 1944 (July 20)
Gisevius, Hans Bernd,--1904-1974.
Schenk von Stauffenberg, Klaus Philipp,--Graf,--1907-1944.
Anti-Nazi movement--Germany.
Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Other Authors:

Winston, Richard.
Winston, Clara.

Other Titles:

Bis zum bittern Ende. English

Notes:

Abridgment of the full edition first published in Cambridge, Mass., in 1947 and republished, by Da Capo Press, in 1998 with a new introduction by Peter Hoffmann. Originally published in German in 1946. Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-17) and index.

Contents:

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 -- Too late : July 20, 1944. Prelude ; July 20, 1944 -- Escape to the future.

Summary:

Provides an account of the unsuccessful military conspiracy against Adolf Hitler carried out by the generals on his staff in the summer of 1944.

ISBN:

0306817713 (alk. paper)
9780306817717 (alk. paper) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)212859273

LCCN:

2008034713

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