Lone Assassin (eBook)

The Incredible True Story of the Man Who Tried to Kill Hitler

Helmut Ortner (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
192 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-0655-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Living as a carpenter who had spent time working in a watch factory, Georg Elser was just an ordinary member of society living in Munich. That is, however, until he took it upon himself to attempt to assassinate the Fhrer, Adolph Hitler. Being a common man who opposed the Nazi regime, Elser took his skills that he had learned, and worked to assemble his own bomb detonator. Every night, he would head to the Munich Beer Hall, where he would work on assembling the bomb that he planned to kill Hitler with, in a hollowed out space near the speakers podium.The bomb went off successfully, killing eight people. Hitler was not one of them. This is the story, scene by scene, of the events that led up to Georg Elser taking justice into his own hands, his attempt to murder the Fhrer, and what happened after the bomb went off. The Lone Assassin is a powerfully gripping tale that places you in 1939, as you follow Elser from the Munich Beer Hall, across the border, and sadly, to the concentration camp, where his heroic life ended.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.

Autor

Helmut Ortner lives and works as a freelance writer and has published over twenty books, mostly on social topics and on issues of justice. He lives in Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main, Germany.Ross Benjamin is a writer and translator. His literary criticism has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, Bookforum, The Nation and other publications. He lives in Nyack, New York.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.8.2016
• Übersetzer: Ross Benjamin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 1587 • 1590 • 1939 • America • Americas • beer hall • beer hall putsch • biggest war • blue collar • Bomb • Bombing • books on • books on biggest wars • books on bombings • books on concentration camps • books on history buffs books on native americans • books on interrogations • books on nazi leaders • books on norways • books on roanoke colonies • books on settlers • Carpenter • Chesapeake Bay • chowan • Colonization • Concentration Camp • Dachau • documentation • elizabethan • England • english colonists • fragmented sentences • francis walsingham • Führer • george elser • german citizens • Germany • hall putsch • hand sources • Heinrich • Himmler • history buffs • intended target • intermarried • interrogations resistance • italics • job recreating • John White • kill hitler • killing eight • Lee Miller • Lone • Munich • munich beer • Native American • nazi leaders • Nazi leadership • North America • Norway • November • objective analysis • Outer Banks • Reich • roanoke colony • Roanoke island • sentence fragments • settlers • single-handedly • sympathetic portrayal • Thesis • Tribes • Ukraine • Virginia Dare • word croatoan
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-0655-0 / 1510706550
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-0655-2 / 9781510706552