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Orbach, Danny, author

Title The plots against Hitler / Danny Orbach

Publisher	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016
	Š2016

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LOCATION	CALL NO.	STATUS
Bangor Pub. Lib. Stacks	940.5343 .O633p	AVAILABLE
Maine State Lib. Stacks	OFFSITE 940.5343 O64p 2016	AVAILABLE

Phys Descr	xvi, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note	"An Eamon Dolan book."
	Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-382) and index
Summary	"A new and definitive account of the anti-Nazi underground in Germany and its numerous plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler"-- Provided by publisher
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."
Subject	Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Assassination attempts
	Heads of state -- Germany -- Biography
	Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945
	Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
	Opposition (Political science) -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
	Assassins -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Other Form	Online version: Orbach, Danny, author. Plots against Hitler. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 9780544715226 (DLC) 2015046580
OCLC #	930363960
ISBN #	9780544714434
	0544714431