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Secret Germany: Stauffenberg & The True Story Of Operation Valkyrie (1994)

by Michael Baigent(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1602392692 (ISBN13: 9781602392694)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Skyhorse Publishing

review 1: This book front-loads the bomb-plot, then segues into a somewhat hagiographic biography of Stauffenberg and an extended section about his mentor/spiritual leader's philosophy and poetry. I like literary criticism, but was not expecting it.There is some seriously over-the-top purple prose (ex: "this creature [continues] to pollute the cosmos with his existence"). The authors also do themselves no favors with their extensive explanation of how Stauffenberg's mentor was not gay, which came off as protesting way, way too much.
review 2: I really liked the first 3 chapters where it talked about Col. Claus Von Stauffenberg and how he and conspirators had tried to assassinate Hitler with Operation Valkyrie (aka in history as the July 20, 1944 plot against Hitler) an... mored how Stauffenberg and these conspirators died cause they felt what has the right thing to do, even though they failed and ended up executed for what they did and how they died as heroes to the German people. THEN ch. 4 I started "sleeping" cause it was all about Stauffenberg's ancestors and names were everywhere and I got lost then probably a chapter or two later when they really talked and Stauffenberg - what he was like, things he said about the war and Hitler, the Nazi's etc, things like that - then it got interesting up to when he was transferred from Germany to North Africa. then it got boring. I felt like the author after that was talking nonsense and NOTHING to do with Stauffenberg. I'd still reccommend this book, but just read chapter's 1-3 and 6-8. those were the good/interesting ones out of the 13 chapters. I thought the author could've done without 13 chapters when the rest is boring and all nonsense really. But I still enjoyed it and with the first 3 chapters, I was also impressed at how Hollywood and Tom Cruise had followed the movie "Valkyrie" perfectly! I would read the first 3 chapters and watch the movie after. I now have a HUGE appreciation for what this guy (Stauffenberg) did and his courage to do this when others had previously failed to kill Hitler at least 21 times and he had the courage to do it. even though it failed, he was still a hero. less

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