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NEIN : Standing Up to Hitler 1935-1944

Paddy Ashdown
BRAND NEW, PAPERBACK

RM25.00

A Riveting Details On The Revelatory New History Of German Opposition To Hitler

ISBN 9780008257071
Book Condition BRAND NEW
Format PAPERBACK
Publisher William Collins
Publication Date 22 Aug 2019
Pages 416
Weight 0.40 kg
Dimension 20 × 13 × 2.8 cm
Retail Price RM57.95
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‘Ashdown has a great gift for narrative history. He unearths little known stories and places them in context with great dexterity. His new book throws fresh and important light on a crucial topic.’
— JONATHAN DIMBLEBY
 
From bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler.
 
In Nein! Paddy Ashdown brilliantly brings to life the fascinating histories of the men in the German high command who plotted to bring down Hitler and end the Nazi regime.
 
In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he had been betrayed by his own people, defeated from the inside. In part, he was right. By 1945, his armies were being crushed on all fronts, his regime collapsing with many fleeing retribution for their crimes. Yet, even before the war started, there were Germans very high in Hitler’s command committed to bringing about his death and defeat.


Paddy Ashdown tells, for the first time, the story of those at the very top of Hitler’s Germany who tried first to prevent the Second World War and then to deny Hitler victory.
 
Based on newly released files, the repeated attempts of the plotters to warn the Allies about Hitler’s plans are revealed. Key strands to the book’s narrative lie with the actions of Abwehr head Admiral Wilhelm Canaris to frustrate Hitler’s policies once the war had started; the plots to kill Hitler and, finally the systematic passage of key German military secrets to London, Washington and Moscow through MI6, the OSS (fore-runner to the CIA) and the “Lucy Ring” Russian spy network based in Switzerland.
 
From 1943 onwards, concerted efforts were made to strike a separate peace with the West to shorten the war and prevent eastern Europe falling under the Soviet yoke.
 
What is revealed is that the anti-Hitler bomb plots, which have received so much attention are, in fact only a small part of a much wider story; one in which those at the highest levels of the German state used every means possible – conspiracy, assassination, espionage – to ensure that, for the sake of the long-term reputation of their country and the survival of liberal and democratic values, Hitler could not be allowed to win the war. It is a matter of record that the European Union we have today and the nature and central position of Germany within it, is, in very large measure, the future envisaged by the plotters and for which they gave their lives.
 
The resisters were not only military men, Prussian aristocrats and veteran civilian politicians such as the former mayor of Leipzig, Carl Goerdeler. A younger group around Helmuth von Moltke’s Kreisau Circle planned to fashion a Germany that was democratic, antiracist, and internationalist: Paddy Ashdown, in his new book on the German resistance, calls them “the flower of the Germany of their day”.
 
There was much bravery from “ordinary” people: Georg Elser, a carpenter, nearly succeeded in blowing Hitler to pieces. Others protested peacefully, such as the devoutly Christian students Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans from Munich; or Otto and Elise Hempel, the couple at the heart of the bestselling novel by Hans Fallada (and subsequent film with Emma Thompson) Alone in Berlin. They and many others were killed horribly by Hitler’s butchers.
 
Ashdown tells their stories, and the stories of their German and Allied counterparts with keen insight, balanced critique, and a gripping, readable style. but It is a fresh and much-needed insight for those seeking to understand the German story of World War Two.
 
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About the Author :
 
After service as a Royal Marine and as an intelligence officer for the UK security services, Paddy Ashdown was a Member of Parliament for Yeovil from 1983 to 2001, and leader of the Liberal Democrats from 1988 until 1999. Later he was the international High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2006. He was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in 2006.

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