Valkyrie: An Insider's Account of the Plot to Kill Hitler (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780306817717)

When on July 20, 1944, a bomb-boldly placed inside Hitler's headquarters by Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg- exploded without killing the F?rer, the subsequent coup d'騁at 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.

Author: Hans Bernd Gisevius
ISBN-10: 0306817713
ISBN-13: 9780306817717
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 12/02/2008
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.80d