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020 $a9781605984506
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035 $a(OCoLC)813931380
090 $aDD247.C35$bB37 2013
100 1 $aBassett, Richard$c(Historian)
245 10 $aHitler's spy chief :$bthe Wilhelm Canaris betrayal : the intellgence campaign against Adolf Hitler /$cRichard Bassett.
250 $aFirst Pegasus Books trade paperback edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bPegasus Books,$c2013.
264 4 $c©2012
300 $a319 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, portraits ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 298-308) and index.
505 0 $aA naval tradition -- The league of gentlemen -- A guilded youth -- Finis Germaniae -- Spy chief -- Spain -- Fallen bastions -- Lines of communication -- Keeping the empire afloat -- Total war -- Duel to the death -- The search for peace -- Unconditional surrender -- The end of the Abwehr.
520 $a"Admiral Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) eighteen months after the Nazis came to power. But Canaris would turn against the Fuhrer and the Nazi regime, believing that Hitler would start a war Germany could not win. In 1938 he was involved in an attempted coup, undermined by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. In 1940 he sabotaged the German plan to invade England. For years Canaris played a dangerous double game, desperately trying to keep one step ahead of the Gestapo. In 1944 SS chief Heinrich Himmler became suspicious of Canaris when Abwehr personnel were involved in the botched Operation Valkyrie. Finally Himmler had the evidence to arrest Canaris himself; he was executed a few weeks before the end of the war. In this riveting true story, Richard Bassett presents the definitive account of how Admiral Canaris's secret work against the German leadership altered the course of World War II"--Back cover.
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