Valkyrie: An Insider’s Account of the Plot to Kill Hitler

When on July 20, 1944, a bomb—boldly placed inside Hitler’s\nheadquarters by Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg— exploded\nwithout killing the Führer, the subsequent coup d’état against the\nThird Reich collapsed. The conspirators were summarily shot or\ncondemned in show trials and sadistically hanged. One of the few\nsurvivors of the conspiracy was Hans Bernd Gisevius, who had used\nhis positions in the Gestapo and the_Abwehr_(military\nintelligence) to further the anti-Nazi plot.Valkyrie, an\nabridgment of Gisevius’s classic insider’s account_To the Bitter\nEnd_, is an intimate memoir as riveting as it is\nexceptional.\n\n