Valkyrie
The Story of the Plot to Kill Hitler, by Its Last Member

Valkyrie: On the Danger of Simplifying the Past and Creating False Heroes This book tells the story of how two brothers, Philip and Georg von Boeselager, became members of the failed July 1944 plot to kill Hitler. As many earlier reviewers have noted, the book does not center on the assassination att......more

This is a memoir of Philipp von Boeselager, who is the last surviving member of the 1944 Bomb Plot to assassinate Hitler. It seem to me to be ghost written. The plot is just a relatively simple memoir illuminating a faction of the German Wehrmacht and one influential militaristic family. It becomes......more

Other people have pointed out that, though they went into the book looking for a hero of anti-Nazism, they came out with something more patriotic than that. There are mentions of the horrors of Nazi anti-Semitism, and it /is/ the most mentioned motivation that Philipp gives for his own rebellion aga......more

Despite only giving this three stars, I would recommend this book to everyone. Mostly because of the different perspective it gives. It is a chronicle of two brothers from the beginning of the Third Reich to the final defeat. Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager describes his, and his brother's, shift f......more

Very glad I read this. Fascinating insight into the psyche of the German military and their predicament in overthrowing the regime. 3 stars simply because I would have liked more about the details of the coup itself, though that is the nature of one man's honest memoirs and the fact noone knew all o......more