Hitler's Spy Chief

Name: Hitler's Spy Chief
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ISBN: 9781605983707

ISBN-10: 1605983705

ISBN-13: 9781605983707

Edition: N/A

Authors: Richard Bassett

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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 turned against the Führer 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, and fed General Franco vital information that helped him keep Spain out of the war. For years he played a dangerous double game, desperately trying to keep one step ahead of the Gestapo. The SS chief, Heinrich Himmler, became suspicious of Canaris and by 1944, when Abwehr…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Publication date: 6/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Preface


Author's Note


Preface to the American Edition


Introduction



A 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


Conclusion


Sources Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index