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Dewey Decimal Number: 943.0864092
EAN num: 9781602392694
ISBN number: 1602392692
Label: Skyhorse Publishing
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Page Count: 432
Printing Date: May 01, 2008
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The story of the hero behind the endeavor to kill Hitler, the subject of Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise, set for June 2008 release.
By July of 1944, the Third Reich's days were numbered. Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, a general staff insider with open eyes (and acess to the Führer), was convinced that assassinating Hitler was the only way to prevent the destruction of the Fatherland and the deaths of millions. On July 20, he hid a bomb-stuffed briefcase at a high-level meeting. The explosion tore through the room, but a table leg spared Hitler from the blast. The result was a witch hunt, a wave of executions, and a further pointless year of war. Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh deliver an exhilarating and definitive portrait of the anti-Nazi movement (called 'Secret Germany') that almost killed Hitler. Secret Germany is the story of 'World War II's boldest plot-that-failed' (Time), a coup that was a moral and spiritual necessity. 36 b/w photographs.
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This book has obviously been written with an eye on the Tom Cruise thriller scheduled for a December release. The authors are hoping to cash in on the movie by bringing out this terrible book with the same title. The plot occupies only a few pages and in effect the book is over by page 66. The rest of the book is devoted to a history of Germany, a biography of Stauffenberg and other non relevant details. I was hoping for a kind of "Day of the Jackal" thriller but what I got was a boring history lesson. Not done. Not fair. I hope the movie is better. Avoid at all costs.
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SECRET GERMANY: A RIGHTING OF THE RECORD
Reviewed by William Courson
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It is often asserted and widely believed - largely within conventionally religious and particularly Christian circles - that Adolph Hitler was both a devotee and practitioner of unspecified "esoteric" and occult arts including astrology, thaumaturgy, necromancy, and geomancy, inter alia. To an extent, these assertions are correct. The reason they are made, however, appears to be the unjustified endeavor at the placing of blame for the Third Reich's evil on the Occult, thus absolving the Christian churches of Germany for their more-or-less willing complicity in the Nazi nightmare.
Omitted from such assertions, of course, is the role played by the occult movement in formulating a plan that has come to be known as "Secret Germany," through which a number of prominent esotericists and occult practitioners opposed to their country's criminal government and resisting the depredations of Hitler and his genocidal minions sought to kill the Fuhrer.
One of the "Secret Germany" movement opposed to National Socialism, Count Claus von Stauffenberg, detonated a bomb in Hitler's Eastern Front headquarters. Failing to kill Hitler led Stauffenberg to the firing squad and then to a meat-hook. This book chronicles the 46 other assassination attempts on Hitler over a two year period, many of them inspired by the life and teachings of Germany's great esotericist and mystic, Stefan George, whose circle of intimates and initiates were also known by the name "Secret Germany."
Had Von Satuffenberg succeeded in his efforts to exterminate the most infamous madman in all of history, he would undoubtedly have emerged as Germany's rightful savior: more than a deGaulle-like figure; rather, a Christ-like figure whose very physical aspect was strongly reminiscent of the quasi-mythic "Knight of Bamberg" who centuries before had been prepared to sacrifice his life for that of his beloved fatherland.
There are several relatively small difficulties with this work. The authors' homophobia is embarrassinmgly evident in their shrill but ineffective endeavor to disprove the widely (and in the reviewer's view, correctly) held belief that Stefan George was homosexual. But given the overall chacter and quality of the volume, that is small criticism indeed.
Like all of Baigent's and Leigh's works, this volume belongs in the library of every professional historian and every student of history. It is not simply an invaluable work of historic scholarship, it is an irreplaceable and necessary one.
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