The Night of the Long Knives
By: by Max Gallo.
Publisher: Warner
Published: 1973
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Subjects: Germany -- History -- Night of the Long Knives, 1934.; Röhm, Ernst, -- 1887-1934.
Work titles: La Nuit des longs couteaux
Description: On Friday evening, June 29, 1934, Hitler personally led a well planned attack on the rebel elements within the German state.  No one was spared.  High officials, minor clerks, Army heroes, innocent bystanders, wives, retired dignitaries -- all were murdered in a single weekend of systematic horror.  A 72-hour orgy of blood Hitler himself called The Night of the Long Knives.
Notes: Warner #78-231.
Cover art by Don Punchatz.