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Valkyrie: An Insider's Account of the Plot to Kill Hitler
Valkyrie An Insider's Account of the Plot to Kill Hitler
Author: Hans Bernd Gisevius
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 w...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780306817717
ISBN-10: 0306817713
Publication Date: 12/1/2008
Pages: 272
Edition: Abridged
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Publisher: Da Capo Press
Book Type: Paperback
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How can you make a book about the plot to kill Hitler, written by one of the conspirators, less than thrilling, and, indeed, tedious? Beats me. The whole first half of the book was spent introducing the characters. The author seems to want to point how what "good Germans" each one was. Perhaps he felt the need to stress the fact that they were not Nazi sympathizers or Hitlerian acolytes, at least by war's end. The climate of the times in which this book was published may have necessitated such an approach. But why make it so dull and unfocused?
It's not until the final quarter of the book, when the actual "Putsch" is attempted that the book gains any momentum. Perhaps also, this is where the author's personal experiences really begin, until that point he seems to have been an observer. I don't feel I gained much insight into the men who were driven to plot the assassination of their own commanding officer and head of state.


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