| Description |
1 online resource (299 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-289) and index. |
| Contents |
1. July 20, 1944: The Wolf's Lair -- 2. July 20, 1944: Paris -- 3. 1934-1935: The Army Swears Fealty -- 4. 1936-1937: "They Call Him Hermann" -- 5. 1938: "A Swine, But a Lucky Swine" -- 6. 1939: First Soldier of the Reich -- 7. 1940: "I Can Force Them to Obey Me" -- 8. 1941: "We Have Nothing to Fear from the Americans" -- 9. 1942: "The Russians Are Done For" -- 10. 1942-1943: Stalingrad -- 11. 1943: Internal Machines -- 12. 1944: "When the Oxcart Gets Stuck in the Mud" -- 13. July 20, 1944: Exercise Completed -- 14. After July 20, 1944: The Last Knights -- 15. March 1945-May 1945: "In the Best Interests of the Nation" -- App. Interview with General Heusinger. |
| Summary |
"On July 20, 1944, a one-eyed, one-armed veteran of Rommel's Afrika Korps smuggled a briefcase full of high explosive into a conference room in the Wolf's Lair, Hitler's East Prussian command headquarters. Finally, after ten years of intrigues and reversals, disappointment and vacillation, the German officer corps had turned against its master, Adolf Hitler." |
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"Operation Valkyrie - the code name for the military coup d'etat - was underway. The authors have found the key to these complex and often cryptic events in the archives and personal recollections of General Adolf Heusinger, operations chief of the German general staff from 1940 to 1944. Heusinger met with Hitler over six hundred times, and came to be the conspirators' special envoy to the Nazi court, a role that exposed him to considerable risks. He was critically wounded at the Wolf's Lair and only narrowly escaped death a second time at the hands of the SS." "The story of the July 20 rebellion has exercised the imaginations of historians and readers for more than a half-century, but is told here with unrivaled clarity and completeness."--Jacket. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Assassination attempts
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Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945. (OCoLC)fst00034591
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World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
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Generals -- Germany.
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Germany.
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Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
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Anti-Nazi movement. (OCoLC)fst00810297
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Attempted assassination. (OCoLC)fst00820785
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Generals. (OCoLC)fst00939841
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Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
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Zwanzigster Juli.
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| Chronological Term |
1933-1945
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| Added Author |
Silianoff, Eugène.
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| Added Title |
Hitler est il mort? English
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Galante, Pierre. Hitler est-il mort? English. Operation Valkyrie. New York : Cooper Square Press, 2002 0815411790 (DLC) 2002107028 (OCoLC)50554179 |
| ISBN |
9781461732136 (electronic bk.) |
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1461732131 (electronic bk.) |
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1299138349 (electronic bk.) |
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9781299138346 (electronic bk.) |
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