Countdown to Valkyrie: the July plot to assassinate Hitler

Introduction

Prologue: High Summer in the Wolf's Lair

1. A Good German: The Early Life of Count Claus von Stauffenberg

2. Seizing the State: The Irresistible Rise of Hitler's Nazis

3. Rule of the Outlaws

4. Hitler's March to War

5. Hitler's War

6. Lone Wolf: Georg Elser and the Bomb in the Beerhall

7. The Devil's Luck: Henning von Tresckow and the Army's Plots against Hitler

8. Enter Stauffenberg: The Head, Heart and Hand of the Conspiracy

9. Valkyrie: 20 July 1944

10. Retribution: Hitler's Revenge

Afterword with Count Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg

Dramatis Personae

Guide to Sites

Acknowledgements and Sources

Picture credits

Index