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Assassinations Anthology - Plots and Murders That Would Have Changed the Course of WW2 (Hardcover)
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Assassinations Anthology - Plots and Murders That Would Have Changed the Course of WW2 (Hardcover)
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The infamous Valkyrie assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on 20
July 1944 failed to kill the German F hrer. It did not succeed
simply because von Stauffenberg s briefcase containing the
explosives was moved behind one of the stout wooden legs of the
conference table, resulting in the blast being deflected away from
Hitler. It was a very close call, and has led to endless
speculation about what might have happened if that briefcase had
been placed just a few inches to one side. There had been many
other attempts on Hitler s life, any one of which could have
succeeded and the whole of human history might have taken a
different course. If Hitler had died at any stage in the Second
World War, would Germany have immediately sued for peace, or would
the generals have taken over and fought a far more practical war
than the obdurate F hrer? Equally intriguing is the possible failed
assassination attempt on General de Gaulle on British soil. Who,
one wonders, was behind that scheme, and how would Anglo-French
relations have developed if he had been killed? If the aircraft he
was to fly on set off just a few minutes earlier would it have
crashed to the ground? In Assassinations Anthology a number of
well-known authors and historians have looked at past events where
key individuals were involved in either attempts on their lives, or
strange incidents occurred which, had they led to their deaths,
might have radically affected the outcome of the war. Events
surrounding Stalin and Jan Smuts are investigated, as well as the
peculiar circumstances relating to the theft of a valuable
Gainsborough painting. Just how great a role did the Government s
Chief Whip, David Margesson, play in persuading the MPs to accept
the unpopular Winston Churchill as Prime Minister, and what would
have happened if Margesson had been killed when the Gainsborough
disappeared? It is fascinating stuff. Grounded in actual events,
the various scenarios portrayed in this collection examine the
likely chain of events that would have followed if the
assassination attempts had succeeded. A few inches, a few minutes
that was all the difference between life and death, and between the
past that we know and one that we can only imagine.
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