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

by Hans Bernd Gisevius

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306817717
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	12/02/2008
Edition description:	Abridged Edition
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	298,030
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.80(d)

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.