The plots against Hitler
By: Danny Orbach
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780544714434
Subjects: Politics and government; Anti-Nazi movement; Assassins; Opposition (Political science); Assassination attempts; Heads of state; Biography; History
Description: "A new and definitive account of the anti-Nazi underground in Germany and its numerous plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler"--
Notes: "An Eamon Dolan book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-382) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Opposition in flames; title: "That damned mare!" : the army top-brass scandal; title: The officer, the mayor and the spy; title: "In the darkest colors" : the decision of General Beck; title: The bird and its cage : first attempt at coup d'état, September 1938; title: Without a network : the lone assassin; title: The point of no return : pogrom and war; title: The spirit of Zossen : when networks fail; title: Signs in the darkness : rebuilding the conspiracy; title: On the wings of thought : networks of imagination; title: Brokers on the frontline : the new strategy; title: War of extermination : the conspirators and the Holocaust; title: "Flash" and liqueur bottles : assassination attempts in the East; title: Code name U-7 : rescue and abyss; title: Count Stauffenberg : the charismatic turn; title: Thou shalt kill : the problem of tyrannicide; title: A wheel conspiracy : the Stauffenberg Era; title: The final showdown : July 20, 1944; title: The shirt of Nessus; title: Motives in the twilight; title: Networks of resistance; title: Epilogue.