Nazi Spymaster: The Life and Death of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris - Hardcover

Mueller, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1510717749 ISBN 13: 9781510717749

Publisher: Skyhorse, 2017

Synopsis

Admiral Wilhelm Canaris was the head of the Abwehr, Hitler's intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944. Initially a supporter of Hitler, Canaris came to vigorously oppose his policies and practices and worked secretly throughout the war to overthrow the regime. Near the end of the war, secret documents were discovered that implicated Canaris and hinted at the extent of the activities conducted by Canaris's Abwehr against the Hitler regime, and in 1945 Canaris was executed as a national traitor. But Canaris left little in the way of personal documents, and to this day he remains a figure shrouded in mystery.

Drawing on newly available archival materials, Mueller investigates the double life of this legendary and enigmatic figure in the first major biography of Canaris to be published in German.

About this title

About the Author:

Gerhard Weinberg currently serves as the Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has been a member of the history faculty since 1974. He is the author of The World at Arms, The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany 1933-1939, and Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders.

Review:

"The little admiral who played such an ambiguous role in Hitler's Reich will always be an enigma. Michael Mueller, in this fine and shrewd biography, has come closer than any previous writer to unlocking the mystery, and has written an admirably fair–and grippingly readable–account of the life of one of WWII's key figures."—Nigel Jones, author of Hitler's Heralds: The Story of the Freikorps and Countdown to Valkyrie: The July Plot to Assassinate Hitler

"Mueller’s narrative informs, illuminates, and entertains."—US Naval War College Review

"Michael Mueller's Nazi Spymaster is the best documented and most reliable biography on one of Third Reich's most mysterious and controversial personalities. This is also one of those rare books that will engage general readers while satisfying specialists and scholars. Highly recommended." —Mark Riebling, author of Church of Spies: The Pope's Secret War Against Hitler

About this edition

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1510717749
• ISBN 13: 9781510717749
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384