Nein!

From the bestselling and prize-winning author Paddy Ashdown, a revelatory new history of German opposition to Hitler from 1934 – 1945 In his last days, Adolf Hitler raged in his bunker that he had been defeated because he had been betrayed from the inside. In part, he was right. His armies were being crushed on all fronts but from the beginning there were Germans determined to bring him and his Nazi party down. This is the story of those who, starting in 1934, repeatedly attempted to kill Hitler, frustrate his war aims, pass his military secrets to the Allies and, from 1943 onwards, strike a separate peace with the West, which would have avoided eastern Europe falling under the Soviet yoke. The narrative follows four main strands: the repeated pre-war attempts of the plotters to warn the Allies about Hitler's plans with the aim of preventing the war; the actions of Abwehr head Admiral Wilhelm Canaris to frustrate Hitler's policies once the war had started; the plots to kill Hitler...