Killing Hitler

Fülszöveg

'A gripping account, which is thoroi " but ivears its
scholarship lightly enough to be ref^ iike a good political tlviiier' limes Literary Sopphment ^
Most people have heard of the Stauffenberg Plot, but it Is not widely known that this was only one of a long series of attempts ^-on the life of Adolf Hitler. The Germans, Soviets, Poles and British all made plans to kill the Führer. Lone gunmen, disaffected German officers and the Polish Underground, the Soviet NKVD and the British Special Operations Executive wére all involved. Their ^ % methods varied from bombing, poisoning or using a sniper, to xr* infiltrating the SS, or even sending Rudolf Hess back to Germany . under hypnosis. Many of the plans did not make it beyond the ;. . drawing board, some were carried out. All of them failed. '
Alongside the dramatic andlargely unknown stories of Hitler's - numerous assassins, this book presents a fascinating investigation ' . of a number of broader issues, such as the complex... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'A gripping account, which is thoroi " but ivears its
scholarship lightly enough to be ref^ iike a good political tlviiier' limes Literary Sopphment ^
Most people have heard of the Stauffenberg Plot, but it Is not widely known that this was only one of a long series of attempts ^-on the life of Adolf Hitler. The Germans, Soviets, Poles and British all made plans to kill the Führer. Lone gunmen, disaffected German officers and the Polish Underground, the Soviet NKVD and the British Special Operations Executive wére all involved. Their ^ % methods varied from bombing, poisoning or using a sniper, to xr* infiltrating the SS, or even sending Rudolf Hess back to Germany . under hypnosis. Many of the plans did not make it beyond the ;. . drawing board, some were carried out. All of them failed. '
Alongside the dramatic andlargely unknown stories of Hitler's - numerous assassins, this book presents a fascinating investigation ' . of a number of broader issues, such as the complex motives of the -German Resistance, the curious squeamishness of the British, and , the effectiveness of the Nazi security apparatus. Drawing on :
memoirs and original archival sources in Poland, Germany, Russia -and Britain,7C/7//ng Hitler offers a unique perspective on the , ^ history of the Third Reich. v- . { >
v C'Highly readable' Richard Overy, Sunday Telegraph ' ^
'Roger Moorhouse has found a new approach to the story
of the Third Reich which Is both original and authentic' Norman Davies
. 'This &ook shows what a murderous place Hitler's Reich was, and that the Führer had the devil's own luck' M.R.D. Foot
'Such is Moorhouse's storytelling power that we await
every fresh attempt on Hitler's life with the hope that this one will
succeed A story as gripping as it is authentic' Joseph E. Pérsico Vissza