Officers' Plot to Kill Hitler by Constantine FitzGibbon [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1958 • Avon

Officers' Plot to Kill Hitler by Constantine FitzGibbon

U.S. FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1943] BILTMORE PUBLISHING

Originally published as 20 July.  

Antique small paperback in very good condition. 

Some slight separation to binding at very front of book that has been reinforced with publishers grade adhesive.   Cover is excellent with some mild shelf wear.  Reads beautifully w/ shop stamp on underside of cover.

The true facts of the conspiracies to rid Germany of Hitler are quite astounding. Some of them have been made public in Germany since the war, but this book is the first to give them to the world at large.

The final attempt, which so nearly succeeded, which in fact was rendered unsuccessful by the merest fluke of chance, and which was reported to be the plot of a few officers, resulted in some five thousand deaths, many under conditions of the most incredible barbarity, as Hitler’s revenge was put into operation.

Constantine FitzGibbon spent a considerable amount of time in Germany compiling this full account of the conspiracies which began, not when Germany faced inevitable defeat as is popularly supposed, but as far back as 1938 when full plans existed to arrest Hitler and the Nazi leaders if war had broken out over Czechoslovakia.

In the midst of the Nazis’ triumphant sweep over Europe, when Hitler was planning his parade down the Champs Elysees, Stauffenberg, then a Staff Officer in Paris, was saying to brother officers that if Hitler could not master his lust for power he must be removed — or killed.  But by far the most elaborately planned attempt to take over the Government was that which hinged on the assassination of Hitler in 1944.