Valkyrie An Insider's Account of the Plot to Kill Hitler

by Gisevius, Hans Bernd

• ISBN13: 9780306817717
• ISBN10: 0306817713
• Edition: Abridged
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-02
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

When on July 20, 1944, a bombboldly placed inside Hitler's headquarters by Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg exploded without killing the Fuhrer, the subsequent coup d'etat 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 theAbwehr(military intelligence) to further the anti-Nazi plot.Valkyrie, an abridgment of Gisevius's classic insider's accountTo the Bitter End, is an intimate memoir as riveting as it is exceptional.

Author Biography

One of the earliest and most active plotters, and later a prosecution witness at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Hans B. Gisevius (1904–1974) used his positions in the Gestapo and the Abwehr (military intelligence) to further the anti-Nazi conspiracy.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Original Edition
Introduction	p. 1
Toward the Catastrophe - September 1939 to July 1944	p. 19
Too Late - July 20, 1944	p. 113
Escape to the Future	p. 215
Epilogue	p. 243
Index	p. 249
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