To The Bitter End. An Insiders Account Of The Plot To Kill Hitler 1933-1944

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1998
Edition: First Edition

Description: 668 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: When on July 20, 1944, a bombboldly placed inside the Wolfs Lair (Hitlers headquarters in East Prussia) by the German Anti-Nazi Resistanceexploded without killing the Führer, the subsequent coup détat against the Third Reich collapsed. Most of the conspirators were summarily shot or condemned in show trials and sadistically hanged. The conspiracy involved a wide circle of former politicians, diplomats, and government officials as well as senior military men. The Resistance had started as early as 1933 and involved several planned putsches and assassination attempts. Hans B. Gisevius knew or met the major figuresincluding Beck, Canaris, Oster, Goerdeler, and von Stauffenbergand barely escaped after the coups failure. One of the few survivors of the German Anti-Nazi Resistance, Gisevius traces its history, from the 1933 Reichstag fire to Germanys defeat in 1945, in a book as riveting as it is exceptional.

ISBN: 9780306808692