Alone against Hitler Kurt von Schuschnigg's Fight to Save Austria from the Nazis

by Bray, Jack

• ISBN13: 9781633886124
• ISBN10: 1633886123
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781633886131
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-05-19
• Publisher: Prometheus

Summary

• This vivid and engaging narrative profiles a lesser-known but pivotal figure during the build-up to WWII
• Von Schuschnigg was one of the few leaders who took a stand against Hitler and the encroachment of Nazism
• Surveys the geopolitical attitudes of Austria in the mid-1900s, parallel narrative structure follows von Schuschnigg and Hitler’s diverging paths after their youth growing up in the same region of Austria
• The stories of Schuschnigg’s encounters with Hitler and other central characters of 1930s Germany —Himmler, Hess, Ribbentrop, Hindenburg, Goring and Papen, as well as their ally, Mussolini—are scenes of high drama, and paint vivid portraits of the essence of the Nazis.
• Schuschnigg's wife's tragic tale within the book leads to one of the most interesting side-stories, that of the Trapp Family Singers of “The Sound of Music” fame.

Author Biography

Jack Bray was for many years a senior partner at the international law firm King & Spalding, and is now senior counsel there. Dubbed “Gentleman John” by Washingtonian magazine, Bray was regularly included in its annual list of Washington’s 30 best lawyers. After law school at Saint Louis University, where he was first in his class and law review editor, he was named to Attorney General Robert Kennedy’s Honors Program and served as a Justice Department trial lawyer. He taught law at Saint Louis University and Georgetown University.