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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Philipp Freiherr Von Boeselager , Professor of Romance Languages Co-Director Comparative Literature Program Steven Rendall (University of Oregon) , Florence Fehrenbach , Jerome FehrenbachPublisher: Knopf Publishing Group Imprint: Knopf Publishing Group Dimensions: Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780307270757ISBN 10: 0307270750 Pages: 211 Publication Date: 12 May 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsPRAISE FROM THE UK FOR PHILIPP VON BOESLEAGER'S VALKYRIE <br> remarkable book....von Boeselager's story is far removed from the new and sanitised Hollywood take on the July 20 plot....many insights [and] details abound....[it is] of real significance to Second World War historians....[an] astonishing memoir. <br>- Henry Winter, Telegraph <br> short, modest memoir....celebrates a long-since-vanished generation of scholar-warriors....von Boeselager, a cavalry officer both intelligent and honourable. <br>- Christopher Hudson, Daily Mail <br> brisk, illuminating description of how one German solider struggled to reconcile his profound religious and moral sensibility with his cavalryman's patriotic code of honour and thereby became part of this conspiracy. <br>- Christopher Silvester, Daily Express PRAISE FROM THE UK FOR PHILIPP VON BOESLEAGER'S VALKYRIE remarkable book....von Boeselager's story is far removed from the new and sanitised Hollywood take on the July 20 plot....many insights [and] details abound....[it is] of real significance to Second World War historians....[an] astonishing memoir. - Henry Winter, Telegraph short, modest memoir....celebrates a long-since-vanished generation of scholar-warriors....von Boeselager, a cavalry officer both intelligent and honourable. - Christopher Hudson, Daily Mail brisk, illuminating description of how one German solider struggled to reconcile his profound religious and moral sensibility with his cavalryman's patriotic code of honour and thereby became part of this conspiracy. - Christopher Silvester, Daily Express Author InformationPhilipp Freiherr von Boeselager was born in Bonn, Germany, in 1917, the fifth of nine children. He was raised with a liberal education, strong moral and religious values, and a love of hunting. In 1938, he enlisted and was placed in the cavalry regiment. He rose to the rank of commanding lieutenant, only to join the German resistance in 1941. His participation in Valkyrie went undetected, and he lived to be the last surviving member of the plot. In 2003, France awarded von Boeselager the Legion of Honor. He died on May 1, 2008. Florence Fehrenbach is the granddaughter of Karl von Wendt, a coconspirator and close friend of Philipp von Boeselager. She and her husband, Jerome Fehrenbach, convinced Boeselager, at the age of eighty-nine, to recount his experience. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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