Secret Germany: Claus Von Stauffenberg and the Mystical Crusade Against Hitler - Hardcover

Baigent, Michael; Leigh, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224035258 ISBN 13: 9780224035255

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

At 38, Colonel Count Klaus von Stauffenberg, Chief of Staff of the Reich Home Army, was a charismatic figure who was maimed when his staff car was shot up by allied aircraft in North Africa. With only one eye, two fingers and a thumb, he discharged himself from hospital after three months and leant to write with a crippled left hand, to drive, ride a horse, shot and lead a normal active life, through doctors had said he would never walk again. The circle with whom he conceived the plot to kill Hilter in July 1944 was called 'Secret Germany', as indeed was the esoteric circle in which Stauffenberg as a young man had been a disciple of the mystic anti-Nazi poet Stefan Georga Stauffenberg was said to be the only man who had stared down the Fuhrer until he averted his eyes. What motivated this extraordinary man with the good looks of a Hollywood idol who saw the bomb plot of July 1944 as not a political move but a moral, religious and spiritual necessity? What moulded the life of this professional soldier who became father confessor to many far older and of senior rank to himself? This book tells the untold story behind the attempt to assasinate Adolf Hitler.

About this title

Product Description:

Good, A good, near very good, clean and sound copy in black cloth boards, gilt title on spine with a good dust jacket. Illustrated with black/white images as listed.

From the Publisher:

An revelatory look at Hitler's enemy within

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0224035258
• ISBN 13: 9780224035255
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352