On the Road to the Wolf's Lair

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674636804
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (368 download)

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Book Synopsis On the Road to the Wolf's Lair by : Theodore S. Hamerow

Download or read book On the Road to the Wolf's Lair written by Theodore S. Hamerow and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the beginning, they rallied behind Hitler in the national interest of Germany; in the end, they sacrificed their lives to assassinate him. A history of German resistance to Hitler in high places, this book offers a glimpse into one of the most intractable mysteries. Why did high-ranking army officers, civil servants, and religious leaders support Hitler? Why did they ultimately turn against him? What transformed these unlikely men, most of them elitist, militaristic, and fiercely nationalistic, into martyrs to a universal ideal? The resisters in On the Road to the Wolf's Lair are not the singular souls doomed to failure by the massive Nazi machinery, but those who emerged from the Third Reich itself--those people whose cultural, administrative, and military positions allowed them, ultimately, to form a systematic, organized opposition to the Nazi regime. These were people with a vested interest in the Third Reich, and their slow and painful awakening to its evils makes a dramatic story, marked as much by temporizing and compromise, vacillation and reluctance--a resistance to conscience--as by the intrigue and heroics of political resistance that finally emerged. Hamerow follows these men as, one by one, they find themselves overwhelmed by guilt and contrition over their support of a murderous regime. He shows how their awakened moral reckonings and higher interests overrode lifetime habits and disciplines on the road to "the wolf's lair." The result is an unsparing history of the German resistance to Hitler--one where the players emerge for the first time as real people with complex motives and evolving characters. Almost a history of the possibility of an emerging collective moral conscience within a destructive environment, the book adds to our understanding of the fall of the Third Reich and of the task of history itself.

The Wolf's Lair

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ISBN 13 : 9781720047919
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (479 download)

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Book Synopsis The Wolf's Lair by : Roger Moorhouse

Download or read book The Wolf's Lair written by Roger Moorhouse and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this brilliant collection of articles and essays, Roger Moorhouse examines some of the more obscure aspects of the history of Hitler's Germany, whilst also using personal stories to expertly illustrate the great themes of World War Two."--Back cover.

Hitler’s Wolfsschanze

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Publisher : Frontline Books
ISBN 13 : 152675312X
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Hitler’s Wolfsschanze by : John Grehan

Download or read book Hitler’s Wolfsschanze written by John Grehan and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed guide to Hitler’s secret Prussian headquarters is fully illustrated with historic photos and rare color images of how it appears today. Set deep in the Masurian woods of northern Poland, formally East Prussia, lies a vast complex of ruined bunkers known as the Wolfsschanze or Wolf’s Lair. This was Hitler’s headquarters for the German attack on the Soviet Union in 1941. It is also where Colonel von Stauffenberg almost killed Hitler in the summer of 1944. Built in under total secrecy, the Wolfsschanze was camouflaged with artificial grass and trees. Drawing on a unique collection of color photographs, Hitler’s Wolfsschanze presents a detailed tour of the 2.5 square mile campus as it appears today—with each building and its purpose identified. Laced with personal accounts of the installation and Hitler’s routines, the Wolfsschanze is brought to life once more. Yet the Wolfsschanze was not the only German military complex in this small part of the Eastern Front. This comprehensive volume also shows and describes the German Army’s headquarters at Mauerwald, the Luftwaffe’s headquarters near the current Russian border, and those of the SS and the Reich Chancellery, both situated near the Wolfsschanze.

At the Wolf's Table

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Publisher : Flatiron Books
ISBN 13 : 1250179157
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Book Synopsis At the Wolf's Table by : Rosella Postorino

Download or read book At the Wolf's Table written by Rosella Postorino and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international bestseller based on a haunting true story that raises provocative questions about complicity, guilt, and survival. They called it the Wolfsschanze, the Wolf’s Lair. “Wolf” was his nickname. As hapless as Little Red Riding Hood, I had ended up in his belly. A legion of hunters was out looking for him, and to get him in their grips they would gladly slay me as well. Germany, 1943: Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauer’s parents are gone, and her husband Gregor is far away, fighting on the front lines of World War II. Impoverished and alone, she makes the fateful decision to leave war-torn Berlin to live with her in-laws in the countryside, thinking she’ll find refuge there. But one morning, the SS come to tell her she has been conscripted to be one of Hitler’s tasters: three times a day, she and nine other women go to his secret headquarters, the Wolf’s Lair, to eat his meals before he does. Forced to eat what might kill them, the tasters begin to divide into The Fanatics, those loyal to Hitler, and the women like Rosa who insist they aren’t Nazis, even as they risk their lives every day for Hitler’s. As secrets and resentments grow, this unlikely sisterhood reaches its own dramatic climax, as everyone begins to wonder if they are on the wrong side of history.

In the Wolf's Lair

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Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486827623
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Book Synopsis In the Wolf's Lair by : Anna Starobinets

Download or read book In the Wolf's Lair written by Anna Starobinets and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Far Woods, Inspector Badger and his assistant, Badgercat, investigate to see if Wolf is responsible for the murder of Rabbit, as everyone suspects.

Wolf's Lair

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Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075097933X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Book Synopsis Wolf's Lair by : Ian Baxter

Download or read book Wolf's Lair written by Ian Baxter and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wolf's Lair was the most important German command post building during the Second World War. Orders sent from these secret headquarters would play a massive part in the outcome of the War. Ian Baxter looks in to the inner workings of Hitler's headquarters, highlighting the decisions that were made and analysing how they came about. Baxter not only utilises published works, unpublished records, military documents and archives on the subject, but also digs deep into the contemporary writings of Hitler's closest personal staff, seeking to disentangle the truth through letters written by wives, friends, adjutants, private secretaries, physicians, and of course his military staff. Baxter extensively examines life within the Fuhrerhauptquartiere, where from behind closed doors, inside the claustrophobic atmosphere of the bunkers Hitler planned and gossiped with his associates. However, as defeat loomed, Hitler surrounded himself not with his intimate circle of friends, but what he considered were illiterate soldiers. Baxter shows how Hitler's contempt for his war staff grew. It describes, during the onset of the traumatic German military reverses in Russia, how Hitler stood unbowed in the face of the enemy, and how he tried to infuse determination into his generals and friends, despite his rapid deterioration in health.

A Predator's Rights

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Publisher : Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486829510
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Book Synopsis A Predator's Rights by : Anna Starobinets

Download or read book A Predator's Rights written by Anna Starobinets and published by Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flush with success from having solved the case of the murdered Rabbit, crotchety detective Chief Badger and his impetuous young assistant, Badgercat, anticipate the return of peace and quiet to their community. But trouble recurs with a visit from Huntington Farm's bloodthirsty security team, who bring accusations of theft and harsh demands for justice. Guard dog Muxtar and hunting hound Polkan are searching for Chicken Four, a plucky little fowl who's just discovered what happens to her sister chickens when they disappear into Nina Palna's kitchen on Fridays. Now Badger and Badgercat have to persuade Palna to stop making chicken soup and to prevent Muxtar and Polkan from taking matters into their own paws (and jaws). Filled with quirky illustrations and newly translated from the original Russian, this is the second of the Beastly Crimes Books to come from this imaginative mystery series geared toward middle-grade readers. It's the perfect read for young detectives ... and all who oppose fowl play.

Hitler's Last Days

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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1627793976
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)

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Book Synopsis Hitler's Last Days by : Bill O'Reilly

Download or read book Hitler's Last Days written by Bill O'Reilly and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his new wife, Eva Braun, and his beloved dog, Blondi. It is there that all three would meet their end, thus ending the Third Reich and one of the darkest chapters of history. Hitler's Last Days is a gripping account of the death of one of the most reviled villains of the 20th century—a man whose regime of murder and terror haunts the world even today. Adapted from Bill O'Reilly's historical thriller Killing Patton, this book will have young readers—and grown-ups too—hooked on history. This thoroughly-researched and documented book can be worked into multiple aspects of the common core curriculum.

Countdown to Valkyrie

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Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783461454
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Book Synopsis Countdown to Valkyrie by : Nigel Jones

Download or read book Countdown to Valkyrie written by Nigel Jones and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2009-03-09 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were over forty plots to assassinate Hitler— This is the “compelling, fast-paced account” of the one that came closest to succeeding (Publishers Weekly). The July Plot of 1944 was masterminded by Count Claus von Stauffenberg, a member of the German General Staff, who had been rushed back from Africa after losing his left eye and right hand. For his injuries, he had been decorated as a war hero. However, he’d never been a supporter of Nazi ideology—and he was increasingly attracted by the approaches of the German resistance movement. After an attempt to assassinate Hitler in November 1943 failed, Stauffenberg developed a new plot to kill him at the Wolf’s Lair, fortified underground bunkers, on July 20, 1944. Besides the führer’s assassination, Stauffenberg organized plans to take over command of the German forces and sue for peace with the Allies. With the help of photographs, explanatory maps, and diagrams, author Nigel Jones dissects the events leading up to the attempt, the events of the day in minute-by-minute detail, and the aftermath in which the conspirators were hunted down. No other work on the July Plot contains such a full explanation of this attempt on Hitler’s life—in addition to a forensic analysis of the day, the book includes short biographies of the key characters involved, the first-person recollections of witnesses, and a “what if” section explaining the likely outcome of a successful assassination. “An engaging history by a talented and accomplished writer.” —Roger Moorhouse, author of Killing Hitler

The Wolf's Hour

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453231544
Total Pages : 769 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Book Synopsis The Wolf's Hour by : Robert McCammon

Download or read book The Wolf's Hour written by Robert McCammon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master spy, Nazi hunter—and werewolf on the prowl—in occupied Paris: A classic of dark fantasy from a Bram Stoker Award—winning author. Allied Intelligence has been warned: A Nazi strategy designed to thwart the D-Day invasion is underway. A Russian émigré turned operative for the British Secret Service, Michael Gallatin has been brought out of retirement as a personal courier. His mission: Parachute into Nazi-occupied France, search out the informant under close watch by the Gestapo, and recover the vital information necessary to subvert the mysterious Nazi plan called Iron Fist. Fearlessly devoted to the challenge, Gallatin is the one agent uniquely qualified to meet it—he’s a werewolf. Now, as shifting as the shadows on the dangerous streets of Paris, a master spy is on the scent of unimaginable evil. But with the Normandy landings only hours away, it’s going to be a race against time. For Gallatin, caught in the dark heart of the Third Reich’s twisted death machine, there is only one way to succeed. He must unleash his own internal demons and redefine the meaning of the horror of war. From the award-winning author of Swan Song and Boy’s Life, this is a “powerful novel [that] fuses WWII espionage thriller and dark fantasy. Richly detailed, intricately plotted, fast-paced historical suspense is enhanced by McCammon’s unique take on the werewolf myth” (Publishers Weekly).

Hitler's Last Secretary

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Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611453232
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Book Synopsis Hitler's Last Secretary by : Traudl Junge

Download or read book Hitler's Last Secretary written by Traudl Junge and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1942 Germany, Traudl Junge was a young woman with dreams of becoming a ballerina when she was offered the chance of a lifetime. At the age of twenty-two she became private secretary to Adolf Hitler and served him for two and a half years, right up to the bitter end. Junge observed the intimate workings of Hitler's administration, she typed correspondence and speeches, including Hitler's public and private last will and testament; she ate her meals and spent evenings with him; and she was close enough to hear the bomb that was intended to assassinate Hitler in the Wolf's Lair, close enough to smell the bitter almond odor of Eva Braun's cyanide pill. In her intimate, detailed memoir, Junge invites readers to experience day-to-day life with the most horrible dictator of the twentieth century. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

In the Wolf's Lair

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Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486834530
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Book Synopsis In the Wolf's Lair by : Anna Starobinets

Download or read book In the Wolf's Lair written by Anna Starobinets and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elderly badger and his eager feline assistant investigate a rabbit's murder. Hardcover, whimsically illustrated edition of the first Beastly Crimes Book, an imaginative mystery series geared toward middle-grade readers.

Killing Hitler

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Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553382551
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (533 download)

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Book Synopsis Killing Hitler by : Roger Moorhouse

Download or read book Killing Hitler written by Roger Moorhouse and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in one enthralling book, here is the incredible true story of the numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler and change the course of history. Disraeli once declared that “assassination never changed anything,” and yet the idea that World War II and the horrors of the Holocaust might have been averted with a single bullet or bomb has remained a tantalizing one for half a century. What historian Roger Moorhouse reveals in Killing Hitler is just how close–and how often–history came to taking a radically different path between Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and his ignominious suicide. Few leaders, in any century, can have been the target of so many assassination attempts, with such momentous consequences in the balance. Hitler’s almost fifty would-be assassins ranged from simple craftsmen to high-ranking soldiers, from the apolitical to the ideologically obsessed, from Polish Resistance fighters to patriotic Wehrmacht officers, and from enemy agents to his closest associates. And yet, up to now, their exploits have remained virtually unknown, buried in dusty official archives and obscure memoirs. This, then, for the first time in a single volume, is their story. A story of courage and ingenuity and, ultimately, failure, ranging from spectacular train derailments to the world’s first known suicide bomber, explaining along the way why the British at one time declared that assassinating Hitler would be “unsporting,” and why the ruthless murderer Joseph Stalin was unwilling to order his death. It is also the remarkable, terrible story of the survival of a tyrant against all the odds, an evil dictator whose repeated escapes from almost certain death convinced him that he was literally invincible–a conviction that had appalling consequences for millions.

Into the Wolves' Lair

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ISBN 13 : 9784947538574
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (385 download)

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Book Synopsis Into the Wolves' Lair by : Takao Saitō

Download or read book Into the Wolves' Lair written by Takao Saitō and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Golgo 13 is a manga (originally 63 volume) series written and illustrated by Takao Saito and first published in Shogakukan's Big Comic magazine since 1969. The series follows Duke Togo, a professional assassin for hire.

The Liberation of Paris

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Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501164937
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis The Liberation of Paris by : Jean Edward Smith

Download or read book The Liberation of Paris written by Jean Edward Smith and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prize-winning and bestselling historian Jean Edward Smith tells the “rousing” (Jay Winik, author of 1944) story of the liberation of Paris during World War II—a triumph achieved only through the remarkable efforts of Americans, French, and Germans, racing to save the city from destruction. Following their breakout from Normandy in late June 1944, the Allies swept across northern France in pursuit of the German army. The Allies intended to bypass Paris and cross the Rhine into Germany, ending the war before winter set in. But as they advanced, local forces in Paris began their own liberation, defying the occupying German troops. Charles de Gaulle, the leading figure of the Free French government, urged General Dwight Eisenhower to divert forces to liberate Paris. Eisenhower’s advisers recommended otherwise, but Ike wanted to help position de Gaulle to lead France after the war. And both men were concerned about partisan conflict in Paris that could leave the communists in control of the city and the national government. Neither man knew that the German commandant, Dietrich von Choltitz, convinced that the war was lost, schemed to surrender the city to the Allies intact, defying Hitler’s orders to leave it a burning ruin. In The Liberation of Paris, Jean Edward Smith puts “one of the most moving moments in the history of the Second World War” (Michael Korda) in context, showing how the decision to free the city came at a heavy price: it slowed the Allied momentum and allowed the Germans to regroup. After the war German generals argued that Eisenhower’s decision to enter Paris prolonged the war for another six months. Was Paris worth this price? Smith answers this question in a “brisk new recounting” that is “terse, authoritative, [and] unsentimental” (The Washington Post).

Mussolini and Hitler

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Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300178832
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Mussolini and Hitler by : Christian Goeschel

Download or read book Mussolini and Hitler written by Christian Goeschel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes ​From 1934 until 1944 Mussolini met Hitler numerous times, and the two developed a relationship that deeply affected both countries. While Germany is generally regarded as the senior power, Christian Goeschel demonstrates just how much history has underrepresented Mussolini's influence on his German ally. In this highly readable book, Goeschel, a scholar of twentieth-century Germany and Italy, revisits all of Mussolini and Hitler's key meetings and asks how these meetings constructed a powerful image of a strong Fascist-Nazi relationship that still resonates with the general public. His portrait of Mussolini draws on sources ranging beyond political history to reveal a leader who, at times, shaped Hitler's decisions and was not the gullible buffoon he's often portrayed as. The first comprehensive study of the Mussolini-Hitler relationship, this book is a must-read for scholars and anyone interested in the history of European fascism, World War II, or political leadership.

Wolf's Lair

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Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418560073
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)

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Book Synopsis Wolf's Lair by : Roger Elwood

Download or read book Wolf's Lair written by Roger Elwood and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1993-01-25 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Bartlett, the Allies' top espionage and weapons expert, is on a daring, top-secret assignment behind enemy lines in a World War II Europe. His Mission, code named WOLF'S LAIR, is to help members of the resistance assassinate Richard Heydrich, the heartless Nazi monster known as "The Butcher of Prague."