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The Fhrer Must Die: A Novel

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Fhrer Must Die: A Novel

Contributors:

By (Author) V. Andre King

ISBN:

9781631581045

Publisher:

Skyhorse Publishing

Imprint:

Yucca Publishing

Publication Date:

1st February 2017

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Dewey:

823.914

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

240

Dimensions:

Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 23mm

Weight:

433g

Description

Experience the exciting and suspenseful tale of the man who almost blew up one of the greatest villains in historyand lived to never tell the tale
On November 8, 1939, a nondescript German clockmaker named Georg Elser placed a bomb in a Munich beer hall where Hitler was scheduled to give a speech. His simple intent: to stop the impending onset of World War II.
The bomb's explosion missed the Fhrer by only minutes, still killing more than 150 members of the Nazi Old Guard. After the attack, Elser was caught by happenstance at the porous Swiss border. When his family was threatened, he immediately confessed. There was only one problem: the Gestapo couldn't accept his confession as a lone assassin.
Elser fit none of the assassin profiles drawn up by the police. To them, it was inconceivable that a lone attempt could have been perpetrated by one of Hitler's faithful and adoring citizens. A British conspiracy Sure. But one of the Fatherland's faithful Impossible.
The Fhrer Must Dieis as much the policemen's story as it is Elser's, narrating the account of the detectives he destroyed and the Gestapo men he drove crazyfollowed by chaos and a body count.

Reviews

"Detail-laden, fascinating, and sometimes oddly funny . . . This is a weirdly compelling book." Historical Novel Society

"Opens a forgotten chapter in 20th century history. Through dramatic re-imagining readers will quickly be drawn into a seemingly mad enterprise. A vivid and compulsively readable novel." Dr. John R. Hale, PhD, author of Lords of the Sea
"Detail-laden, fascinating, and sometimes oddly funny . . . This is a weirdly compelling book." Historical Novel Society

"Opens a forgotten chapter in 20th century history. Through dramatic re-imagining readers will quickly be drawn into a seemingly mad enterprise. A vivid and compulsively readable novel." Dr. John R. Hale, PhD, author of Lords of the Sea

Author Bio

Victoria Andre King, while studying liberal/dramatic arts in southern California, became a successful actress and model, and then moved to Greece to discover her roots. She made her living writing for TV until 1995, when she took up a teaching position at the Lykourgos Stavrakos School of Film and Television Arts. In 1997, she started working in TV and film production, initially for local producers, eventually moving on up to larger productions for BBC, The History Channel, National Geographic, The Discovery Channel, and PBS. In 2009, she turned to teaching English in rural towns while also writing, translating, and editing. She resides in Heraklion, Greece.

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