KILLING HITLER(ISBN=) 英文原版

From Publishers Weekly
Although Hitler
took his own life, there was no shortage of people who wanted, and
attempted, to do it for him throughout his political career.
Drawing on newly opened archives in Germany and elsewhere, British
historian Moorhouse (Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European
City) casts a wide net, chronicling failed assassination
attempts by disaffected individuals in the early days of Hitler’s
reign, such as radical university student Maurice Bavaud, whose
three easily thwarted tries in November 1938 got him guillotined;
the efforts of a British group of James Bond–like spies armed with,
among other things, “exploding rats”; and the well-known attempts
of German officers, such as Hitler’s architect Albert Speer.
Moorhouse also brings to light little-known would-be-assassins,
such as members of the Polish underground. Most of the
assassination attempts Moorhouse describes failed because of poor
planning; others fell victim to circumstance, while some may simply
have been rumors, making for a compelling web of research, intrigue
and conspiracy theory. Accessible prose, suspenseful narration and
ample historical context make this 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. (Mar.
28)
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Few leaders have been the targets of so many assassinations
attempts; German historians have identified 42 plots on Hitler’s
life. Twenty of the would-be assassins are chronicled here. They
range from simple craftsmen to high-ranking soldiers, from the
apolitical to the ideologically obsessed, and from enemy agents to
his closest associates. Moorhouse writes that, for the most part,
they are unknown. One was Maurice Bavaud, who never got close
enough to Hitler to shoot him. Bavaud was guillotined in 1941.
Georg Elser began to plot Hitler’s murder in 1938. In 1939, Elser
triggered a bomb that killed eight people and injured 62 others,
but Hitler had already left the building. Moorehouse describes the
would-be killers’ plans, motives, and–inevitably–their failures.
The book also tells the story of Hitler’s survival. Moorehouse’s
documentation and analysis of this comprehensive history will keep
readers interested to the end. George Cohen
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Review
“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

From the Hardcover edition. –This text refers to the
edition.

Review
“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

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.

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.
From the Hardcover edition.

Introduction1
Prologue
Chapter1
God’sAssassin:MauriceBavaud
Chapter2
TheLoneBomber:GeorgElser
Chapter3
TheEnemyWithin:TheAbwehr
Chapter4
“TheNestofVipers”:ThePolishUnderground
Chapter5
TheImplacableFoe:TheSovietUnion
Chapter6
TheDirtyWar:TheBritishandtheSpecial
OperationsExecutive
Chapter7
HonorRedeemed:TheGermanMilitary
Chapter8
RevoltoftheAcolyte:AlbertSpeer
Epilogue
Illustrations
SelectedBibliography
Notes
Index

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