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Killing Hitler: The Plots, The Assassins, And The Dictator Who Cheated Death

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Trade Paperback

384 Pages, 6.02 x 9 x 0.82 in

March 27, 2007

Random House Publishing Group


0553382551
9780553382556

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For the first time in one enthralling book, here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history.

Disraeli once declared that "assassination never changed anything," and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust might have been averted with a single bullet or bomb has remained a tantalizing one for half a century. What historian Roger Moorhouse reveals in Killing Hitler is just how close-and how often-history came to taking a radically different path between Adolf Hitler's rise to power and his ignominious suicide.

Few leaders, in any century, can have been the target of so many assassination attempts, with such momentous consequences in the balance. Hitler's almost fifty would-be assassins ranged from simple craftsmen to high-ranking soldiers, from the apolitical to the ideologically obsessed, from Polish Resistance fighters to patriotic Wehrmacht officers, and from enemy agents to his closest associates. And yet, up to now, their exploits have remained virtually unknown, buried in dusty official archives and obscure memoirs. This, then, for the first time in a single volume, is their story.

A story of courage and ingenuity and, ultimately, failure, ranging from spectacular train derailments to the world's first known suicide bomber, explaining along the way why the British at one time declared that assassinating Hitler would be "unsporting," and why the ruthless murderer Joseph Stalin was unwilling to order his death.

It is also the remarkable, terrible story of the survival of a tyrant against all the odds, an evil dictator whose repeated escapes from almost certain death convinced him that he was literally invincible-a conviction that had appalling consequences for millions.

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"Compelling.... a page-turner for WWII buffs as well as anyone with a passion for the underbelly of political power in one of the last century's darkest regimes."-Publishers Weekly

"Such is Moorhouse's storytelling power that we await every fresh attempt on Hitler's life with the hope that this one will succeed….A story as gripping as it is authentic." -Joseph E. Persico, author of Roosevelt's Secret War

About the Author

Roger Moorhouse studied history at the University of London and is currently reading for a PhD in modern German history at the University of Strathclyde. He was co-author with Norman Davies of Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City and is a regular contributor to BBC History Magazine. He is married with two children and lives in Buckinghamshire, England.


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"Compelling.... a page-turner for WWII buffs as well as anyone with a passion for the underbelly of political power in one of the last century''s darkest regimes."-Publishers Weekly

"Such is Moorhouse's storytelling power that we await every fresh attempt on Hitler's life with the hope that this one will succeed….A story as gripping as it is authentic." -Joseph E. Persico, author of Roosevelt's Secret War

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    Although I was aware of some attempts on Hitler’s life, I did not know that there were so many and from so many different sources – both within Hitler’s entourage as well as far away from it. The author has provided well-researched and reasoned renderings of a subset of these attempts – the most fascinating and surprising ones. But in addition to discussing these various attempts in detail, the author has also presented much valuable information on the background history and evolving politics… read more

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