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Author Orbach, Danny, author.

Title The plots against Hitler / Danny Orbach.

Publisher Boston; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]
©2016

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LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Rumford Non-Fic  940.53 Orb    AVAILABLE  
 South Portland Main Adult NF  940.5343 ORB    AVAILABLE  
Physical Description xvi, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note Includes bibliographical references 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.