On the Road to the Wolf's Lair
Title | On the Road to the Wolf's Lair PDF eBook |
Author | Theodore S. Hamerow |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 474 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780674636804 |
In the beginning, they rallied behind Hitler in the national interest of Germany; in the end, they sacrificed their lives to assassinate him. A history of German resistance to Hitler in high places, this book offers a glimpse into one of the most intractable mysteries. Why did high-ranking army officers, civil servants, and religious leaders support Hitler? Why did they ultimately turn against him? What transformed these unlikely men, most of them elitist, militaristic, and fiercely nationalistic, into martyrs to a universal ideal? The resisters in On the Road to the Wolf's Lair are not the singular souls doomed to failure by the massive Nazi machinery, but those who emerged from the Third Reich itself--those people whose cultural, administrative, and military positions allowed them, ultimately, to form a systematic, organized opposition to the Nazi regime. These were people with a vested interest in the Third Reich, and their slow and painful awakening to its evils makes a dramatic story, marked as much by temporizing and compromise, vacillation and reluctance--a resistance to conscience--as by the intrigue and heroics of political resistance that finally emerged. Hamerow follows these men as, one by one, they find themselves overwhelmed by guilt and contrition over their support of a murderous regime. He shows how their awakened moral reckonings and higher interests overrode lifetime habits and disciplines on the road to "the wolf's lair." The result is an unsparing history of the German resistance to Hitler--one where the players emerge for the first time as real people with complex motives and evolving characters. Almost a history of the possibility of an emerging collective moral conscience within a destructive environment, the book adds to our understanding of the fall of the Third Reich and of the task of history itself.
Hitler’s Wolfsschanze
Title | Hitler’s Wolfsschanze PDF eBook |
Author | John Grehan |
Publisher | Frontline Books |
Total Pages | 425 |
Release | 2021-12-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 152675312X |
This detailed guide to Hitler’s secret Prussian headquarters is fully illustrated with historic photos and rare color images of how it appears today. Set deep in the Masurian woods of northern Poland, formally East Prussia, lies a vast complex of ruined bunkers known as the Wolfsschanze or Wolf’s Lair. This was Hitler’s headquarters for the German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941. It is also where Colonel von Stauffenberg almost killed Hitler in the summer of 1944. Built in under total secrecy, the Wolfsschanze was camouflaged with artificial grass and trees. Drawing on a unique collection of color photographs, Hitler’s Wolfsschanze presents a detailed tour of the 2.5 square mile campus as it appears today—with each building and its purpose identified. Laced with personal accounts of the installation and Hitler’s routines, the Wolfsschanze is brought to life once more. Yet the Wolfsschanze was not the only German military complex in this small part of the Eastern Front. This comprehensive volume also shows and describes the German Army’s headquarters at Mauerwald, the Luftwaffe’s headquarters near the current Russian border, and those of the SS and the Reich Chancellery, both situated near the Wolfsschanze.
In the Wolf's Lair
Title | In the Wolf's Lair PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Starobinets |
Publisher | Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | 115 |
Release | 2018-10-17 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0486827623 |
In the Far Woods, Inspector Badger and his assistant, Badgercat, investigate to see if Wolf is responsible for the murder of Rabbit, as everyone suspects.
The Wolf's Lair
Title | The Wolf's Lair PDF eBook |
Author | Renee J. Petruna |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Total Pages | 122 |
Release | 2015-02-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781503373198 |
Imagine being given two choices. Accept the hand that fate has dealt to you and stay on with your family and school friends, your father husband, wife or...take a leap into the war torn forests of Nazi occupied Hungary. This short story is the tale of a mother and daughter who took a leap of faith, tearing the already fragile fabric of fantasy and reality that bound them together
Wolf's Lair
Title | Wolf's Lair PDF eBook |
Author | Stanisław Siemiński |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 64 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9788360972441 |
Dragon's Lair
Title | Dragon's Lair PDF eBook |
Author | Chantal Fernando |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2014-10-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1501106244 |
The first in a new sexy romance series from bestselling author Chantal Fernando about the bad boys of the Wind Dragons Motorcycle Club and the women who fall in love with them. When I found my boyfriend cheating on me, I did something stupid. Or should I say, someone? Because of that mistake, I’m now stuck in a world I don’t belong in. I’m a law student. They’re criminals. He’s the vice president of a motorcycle club. I’m a good girl with a strict upbringing. He’s my ex-boyfriend’s brother. And I’m screwed.
War Studies Reader
Title | War Studies Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Sheffield |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2010-09-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0826420702 |