Disobeying Hitler [electronic resource] : German resistance after Valkyrie / Randall Hansen.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hansen, Randall
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014].
Subjects:
Hitler, Adolf, > 1889-1945 > Military leadership.
Anti-Nazi movement > Germany > History.
Government, Resistance to > Germany > History > 20th century.
Dissenters > Germany > History > 20th century.
Opposition (Political science) > Germany.
Strategy > History > 20th century.
Germany > Military policy.
Germany > History > 1933-1945.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2014 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Variant Title:
Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance After Valkyrie
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction
  • War, atrocities, resistance
  • The coup against Hitler
  • From failing hands : the coup in Paris
  • Paris, July 20, 1944 : the SS locked down
  • The resistance's last hope : Rommel against Hitler
  • Hitler's revenge
  • Did a Prussian save Paris?
  • To destroy the City of Light
  • Paris in revolt
  • Paris liberated, Paris spared
  • Normandy south : the invasion of southern France
  • Forts and fortresses : Toulon
  • Europe's lifeline : Marseille
  • Violence comes home : preparing the defense of the Reich
  • To destroy Germany : Hitler and scorched earth
  • Fighting to the last man : the allies at the Rhine
  • Hitler rages
  • The Siege of Dusseldorf
  • Dying so that they may live : central Germany
  • Nuremberg's destruction, Heidelberg's salvation : southern Germany
  • A citizens' revolt : Augsburg
  • "We, the women of Freiburg, beg you" : the French occupation of southern Germany
  • A house of cards : the Soviet assault on the Reich
  • Saving Caspar David Friedrich's city
  • Finishing the job that Bomber Harris started : Hamburg
  • Escaping the Soviet net : Walther Wenck and the flight across the Elbe
  • Conclusion.