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Author Hoffmann, Peter, 1930-2023, author

Title Stauffenberg : a family history, 1905-1944 / Peter Hoffmann
Edition Third edition
Published Montréal [Québec] ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 424 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Contents Childhood, a world war, and a new beginning -- Secret Germany -- Reichswehr -- Sea change -- In the Third Reich -- Crisis and war -- on the general staff -- Stauffenberg turns against Hitler -- In the front line -- Conspiracy -- Planning the coup: internal preparations -- Contacts abroad -- Assassination plans -- Launching the insurrection -- Uprising
Summary The attempt to assassinate Hitler is widely acknowledged, but few are aware of the individuals involved. In this detailed family history Peter Hoffmann reveals the tragic and heroic life of Claus, Count Stauffenberg, German aristocrat and would-be assassin of Adolph Hitler. --from publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-412) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Schenk von Stauffenberg, Klaus Philipp, Graf, 1907-1944.
Schenk von Stauffenberg, Klaus Philipp, Graf, 1907-1944 -- Family
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Assassination attempts
SUBJECT Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 fast
Schenk von Stauffenberg, Klaus Philipp, Graf, 1907-1944 fast
Subject Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany -- Biography
Revolutionaries -- Germany -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
HISTORY -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Anti-Nazi movement
Attempted assassination
Families
Revolutionaries
Germany
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. cn2009000895
ISBN 9780773575295
0773575294
9780773571358
0773571353
1282865846
9781282865846
9786612865848
6612865849
0773578269
9780773578265
Other Titles Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg und seine Brüder. English