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

Gisevius, Hans Bernd

ISBN 10: 0306817713 / ISBN 13: 9780306817717

Published by Da Capo Press, Philadelphia, 2009

About this Item

Softcover, xv, 256 pp., Foreward by Allen W. Dulles. Introduction by Peter Hoffmann. 1st Abridged Edition. Light wear, some leaves with top corner creased otherwise unmarked, tight binding. One of the most revealing inside stories to come out of Nazi Germany, full of nauseating details about murderous Gestapo chiefs, conspiring Wehrmacht generals, terrorized Reich ministers and the human freaks on top of the pyramid called the Third Reich.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Valkyrie: An Insider's Account of the Plot to Kill Hitler
• Publisher: Da Capo Press, Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306817713
• ISBN 13: 9780306817717
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Thus
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

Hans Bernd Gisevius (1904-1974) was one of the most active conspirators in the July 20, 1944, plot to kill Hitler, and later a prosecution witness at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials.