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Hitler's spy chief : the Wilhelm Canaris mystery by Richard Bassett, (Historian) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hitler's spy chief : the Wilhelm Canaris mystery about?
Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) eighteen months after the Nazis came to power. But Canaris turned against the Fuhrer and the Nazi regime, believing that Hitler would start a war Germany could not win. In 1938 he was involved in an attempted coup, undermined by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. In 1940 he sabotaged the German plan to invade England, and fed General Franco vital information that helped him keep Spain out of the war.
Who reads Hitler's spy chief : the Wilhelm Canaris mystery?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Richard Bassett, (Historian)
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780297846871
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Memoir, World War Ii
- Rating
- 3.76 / 5 (111 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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