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    Hitler's Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery

    By Richard Bassett

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    A remarkable tale of espionage and intrigue—the true story of Hitler’s intelligence chief and his role in the conspiracy to assassinate the Führer.
     Admiral Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Adolf Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) eighteen months after the Nazis came to power. But Canaris turned against the Fu¨hrer 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 personnel were involved in the attempted assassination of Hitler, he had the evidence to arrest Canaris himself. Canaris was executed a few weeks before the end of the war.
     In a riveting true story of intrigue and espionage, Richard Bassett reveals how Admiral Canaris’s secret work against the German leadership changed the course of World War II.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPegasus Books
    Release dateJun 5, 2012
    ISBN9781453249291
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    Hitler's Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery
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    Richard Bassett

    Richard Bassett has worked in the City for the last fifteen years advising several of Europe’s largest companies. Previously he worked in Central Europe for many years, first as a professional horn player and then as a staff correspondent of the London Times in Vienna, Rome, and Warsaw, where his dispatches covered the end of the Cold War and gave early warnings of the impending disintegration of Yugoslavia. He divides his time between London and the Continent.

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    • 4/5
      Very interesting book. I would have given it a higher rating, however it is highly inaccessible, expecting readers to have significant pre-existing knowledge of people, places, organizations, acronymns, etc., involving Europe, WWII, and more. Expect to interrupt your reading frequently to look things up online.

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