ISBN:

• 9780544714434
• 0544714431

Description: xvi, 406 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

• "An Eamon Dolan book."
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-382) and index.

Contents:

• Opposition in flames
• "That damned mare!" : the army top-brass scandal
• The officer, the mayor and the spy
• "In the darkest colors" : the decision of General Beck
• The bird and its cage : first attempt at coup d'état, September 1938
• Without a network : the lone assassin
• The point of no return : pogrom and war
• The spirit of Zossen : when networks fail
• Signs in the darkness : rebuilding the conspiracy
• On the wings of thought : networks of imagination
• Brokers on the front line : the new strategy
• War of extermination : the conspirators and the Holocaust
• "Flash" and liqueur bottles : assassination attempts in the East
• Codename U-7 : rescue and abyss
• Count Stauffenberg : the charismatic turn
• Thou shalt kill : the problem of tyrannicide
• A wheel conspiracy : the Stauffenberg Era
• The final showdown : July 20, 1944
• The shirt of Nessus
• Motives in the twilight
• Networks of resistance.

Control Number: 2023533

Subjects:

• Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
• Assassins -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
• Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
• Heads of state -- Germany -- Biography.
• Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Assassination attempts.
• Opposition (Political science) -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.

Genre: Biographies.