{"product_id":"killing-hitler-the-plots-the-assassins-and-the-dictator-who-cheated-death-9780553803693","title":"Killing Hitler: The Plots  The Assassins  and the Dictator Who Cheated Death","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor the first time in one enthralling book  here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history.  Disraeli once declared that assassination never changed anything  and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust might have been averted with a single bullet or bomb has remained a tantalizing one for half a century. What historian Roger Moorhouse reveals in Killing Hitler is just how closeand how oftenhistory came to taking a radically different path between Adolf Hitlers rise to power and his ignominious suicide.  Few leaders  in any century  can have been the target of so many assassination attempts  with such momentous consequences in the balance. Hitlers almost fifty would-be assassins ranged from simple craftsmen to high-ranking soldiers  from the apolitical to the ideologically obsessed  from Polish Resistance fighters to patriotic Wehrmacht officers  and from enemy agents to his closest associates. And yet  up to now  their exploits have remained virtually unknown  buried in dusty official archives and obscure memoirs. This  then  for the first time in a single volume  is their story.  A story of courage and ingenuity and  ultimately  failure  ranging from spectacular train derailments to the worlds first known suicide bomber  explaining along the way why the British at one time declared that assassinating Hitler would be unsporting  and why the ruthless murderer Joseph Stalin was unwilling to order his death.  It is also the remarkable  terrible story of the survival of a tyrant against all the odds  an evil dictator whose repeated escapes from almost certain death convinced him that he was literally invinciblea conviction that had appalling consequences for millions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45951489638453,"sku":"ByrdShop_0553803697","price":65.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780553803693.jpg?v=1788109788","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/killing-hitler-the-plots-the-assassins-and-the-dictator-who-cheated-death-9780553803693","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}