The plots against Hitler: German resistance and the art of conspiracy

✍ Scribed by Hitler, Adolf;Orbach, Danny

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Introduction -- 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 -- 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 frontline : the new strategy -- War of extermination : the conspirators and the Holocaust -- Flash and liqueur bottles : assassinations attempts in the East -- Codename U-7 : rescue and abyss -- Count von 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 -- Epilogue : knights in dirty armor : "heroes of the resistance and us".;"A new and definitive account of the anti-Nazi underground in Germany and its numerous plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler"--

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction --
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 --
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 frontline : the new strategy --
War of extermination : the conspirators and the Holocaust --
Flash and liqueur bottles : assassinations attempts in the East --
Codename U-7 : rescue and abyss --
Count von 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 --
Epilogue : knights in dirty armor : "heroes of the resistance and us".

✦ Subjects

Anti-Nazi movement;Anti-Nazi movement--Germany--History--20th century;Assassins;Assassins--Germany--History--20th century;Attempted assassination;Heads of state;Heads of state--Germany;HISTORY--Europe--Germany;Opposition (Political science);Opposition (Political science)--Germany--History--20th century;Politics and government;Electronic books;Biographies;History;Biography;Hitler, Adolf, -- 1889-1945 -- Assassination attempts;Hitler, Adolf, -- 1889-1945;Heads of state -- Germany -- Biography;Anti