"The steps by which western Europe was able to rise out of the Dark Ages, shake off the Moslem power, inaugurate the twelfth century Renaissance and bring it to full glory two centuries later."

The German aristocrat who was the leader in the plot to overthrow the Nazi government and assassinate Hitler (later known as Operation Valkyrie) was Claus-Phillip Maria Graf (Count) von Stauffenberg. This book is not only the first full-length biography of Stauffenberg in English, but also an invaluable record of the secret conspiracy that resulted in an attempt on Hitler's life in 1944. Stauffenberg was a member of the old German aristocracy in whom...