Pen and Sword Books: Tapping Hitler's Generals by Sonke Neitzel, Ian Kershaw

Tapping Hitler's Generals (6 reviews)

Transcripts of Secret Conversations, 1942 - 1945

Sonke Neitzel, Foreword by Ian Kershaw
Found in: World War Two Books
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Hardback 416 pages
ISBN: 9781844157051

Published: 18 October 2007

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Between 1942 and 1945, MI-19, a division of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence, created a number of Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centres in and around London. The most important of these centres was at Trent Park, in North London. Sophisticated tapping equipment was installed, and secret gramophone recordings were made of conversations between German general staff officers. In these transcripts, the officers reflect on how they thought the war was progressing, and the direction of German politics and strategy. The officers discussed the July Plot of 1944, the failed attempt to assassinate Hitler, collaboration with the enemy, and their experience of German war crimes. The editor has written biographies of all of the officers who appear in the transcripts, and has meticulously researched the validity of their assertions.

Outstanding scholarship creates vivid portraits through the secretly recorded conversations of captive German generals; a powerful insight not only into World War Two history in the uncensored words of those who made it but also... [read full review]

Amazon five star review

Sönke Nietzel's fine book TAPPING HITLER'S GENERALS is essential reading. Anyone who wants to understand the part the German army played in Nazi atrocities should start here.

Gary Sheffield Professor of War Studies

One of the best books on the intelligence war published in the last decade.

World War II Quarterly 2008

These extracts exert a grim fascination. They represent a unique and unmediated window into the minds of a military elite brutalised by the First World War, embittered by what they saw as Germany's unjust... [read full review]

The Daily Telegraph - Aug 2007

Fascinating and chilling

BBC History Magazine

A compelling read

Nicholas Clee, former editor of The Bookseller

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