Research Catalog

Title

Storming the eagle's nest : Hitler's war in the Alps / by Jim Ring.

Author

Ring, Jim

Publication

London : Faber and Faber, 2013.

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Details

Description

xv, 368 pages; 24 cm

Summary

From the Fall of France in June 1940 to Hitler's suicide in April 1945, the swastika flew from the peaks of the High Savoy in the western Alps to the passes above Ljubljana in the east. This title tells the story of how the war was conceived and directed from the Fuhrer's mountain retreat, and how all the Alps bar Switzerland fell to Fascism.

Subject

• Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
• 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Alps Region
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Alps Region
• Warfare and Defence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-345) and index

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Source of Description (note)

• Description based on print version record.

Contents

Part one -- 1. Plan Z -- 2. `I need a few thousand dead' -- 3. Triumph of the Will -- 4. The Alps under the Swastika -- Part two -- 5. `The lifeboat is full' -- 6. Setting the Alps ablaze -- 7. Spy city central -- 8. Operation Achse -- Part three -- 9. `Our predecessors made mistakes' -- 10. `A guerrilla à la Tito' -- 11. Arbeit Macht Frei -- 12. The Mayfly Republics -- Part four -- 13. The Troops of Midian -- 14.The redoubt that never was -- 15.Storming the Eagle's Nest.

ISBN

• 9780571282388 (hbk.)
• 0571282385 (hbk.)
• 0571282407 (ePub ebook)
• 9780571282401 (ePub ebook)

OCLC

• 851825562
• SCSB-12732793

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library