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 eas
內容簡介：
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.
關於作者：
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.
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