VALKYRIE

WhentheSecondWorldWarbrokeout,PhilippFreiherrvonBoeselager,then25-years-old,foughtenthusiasticallyforGermanyasacavalryofficer.ButafterdiscoveringNazicrimes,vonBoeselager’spatriotismquicklyturnedtodisgust,andhejoinedagroupofconspiratorswhoplottedtokillAdolfHitlerandHeinrichHimmler.Inthiselegantbutunflinchingmemoir,vonBoeselagergivesvoicetothespiritofthesmallbutdeterminedbandofmenwhotookastandagainsttheThirdReichinwhatculminatinginthefailed“Valkyrie”plot—oneofthemostfascinatingnearmissesoftwentieth-centuryhistory.