The Conquerors

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Beschloss, Michael R. 저자(글)

Simon & Schuster · 2003년 10월 07일

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Michael Beschloss has been called "the nation's leading Presidential historian" by Newsweek. The author of six previous books on American Presidents, he is a frequent lecturer and regular commentator on ABC News and PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He lives with his wife and their two sons in Washington, DC
'The Conquerors' provides a fascinating insight into the behind-the-scenes negotiations during World War II that led to the emasculation of Germany.
Michael Beschloss has been called "the nation's leading Presidential historian" by Newsweek. He has written eight books on American Presidents and is NBC News Presidential Historian, as well as contributor to PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and two sons.
Chapter One: The Plot to Murder Hitler Had the plotters been more deft, Thursday, July 20, 1944, would have been Adolf Hitler's last day on earth.Six weeks after D-Day, the United States, Great Britain and their allies had landed a million men in France. The Red Army was marching westward. When Hitler's generals proposed retreat behind more defensible lines, the Fuhrer had shaken his head, crying, "Victory or death!"Now Hitler was burrowed in at the Wolf's Lair, his field headquarters near Rastenburg, in a melancholy, dank East Prussian forest. At noon, in a log barracks, he listened to a gloomy report from one of his army chiefs about Germany's retreat on the Eastern front. In the steamy room, Hitler took off the eyeglasses he vainly refused to use in public and mopped his forehead with a handkerchief. SS men and stenographers stood around the massive, long oak table like nervous cats. Maps were unfurled. Hitler leaned over them and squinted through a magnifying glass, grimacing at the bad news.Into the room strode a thirty-seven-year-old officer named Claus von Stauffenberg. He was a Bavarian nobleman, with blond hair and sharp cheekbones, who had lost an eye and seven fingers to an Allied mine in Tunisia while fighting for Germany. Unknown to the Fuhrer or the other two dozen people in the chamber, Stauffenberg was part of a secret, loosely rigged anti-Hitler conspiracy that included military officers, diplomats, businessmen, pastors, intellectuals, landed gentry.Some wanted historians of the future to record that not all Germans were Nazis. Some simply wanted to spare their nation the full brunt of conquest by the Soviet, American and British armies. Still others were unsettled by Hitler's war against the Jews. For years, the plotters had tried to kill Hitler with rifles and explosives, but the Fuhrer had always survived.Disgusted by what he heard about Nazi brutality in Russia, Stauffenberg had taught himself how to use his remaining three fingers to set off a bomb. By luck, in July 1944, he was summoned to the Wolf's Lair to help brief Hitler about the Eastern front. When Stauffenberg entered the room, the Fuhrer shook his hand, stared at him appraisingly, then returned to his maps.Inside Stauffenberg's briefcase, swaddled in a shirt, was a ticking time bomb. While the Army chief droned on, Stauffenberg put the briefcase under the table. Leaving his hat and belt behind, as if he were stepping out for a moment, Stauffenberg walked out of the room and left the barracks.About a quarter to one came a loud boom and swirl of blue-yellow flame, followed by black smoke.Outside the barracks, Stauffenberg saw men carry out a stretcher on which lay a body shrouded by what seemed to be Hitler's cloak. Rushing to his car for a getaway flight to Berlin, he presumed that Adolf Hitler was no more. Stauffenberg hoped that next would come a public declaration of Hitler's assassination, an Army revolt and establishment of an anti-Nazi government in Berlin.But when he arrived at General Staff headquarters on Bendler Street, there was only disarray. Fellow plotters were not convinced that Hitler had been killed. Aghast, Stauffenberg cried, "I myself saw Hitler carried out dead!"But he was wrong. Striving for a better view of the maps, one of the Fuhrer's aides had pushed the briefcase behind one of the table's massive supports, protecting Hitler from certain death. Stauffenberg and his adjutant, Werner von Haeften, a collaborator, had felt too rushed to put a second bomb in the briefcase. Had they done so, Hitler would have certainly been killed.Instead, when the smoke cleared Hitler was still standing. With bloodshot eyes staring out from a soot-blackened face, he tamped down flame from his trousers. His hair stood out in spikes. His ruptured eardrums were bleeding. His right arm dangled numb at his side.A weeping Field Marshal W
ANew York Timesbestseller,The Conquerorsreveals how Franklin Roosevelt's and Harry Truman's private struggles with their aides and Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin affected the unfolding of the Holocaust and the fate of vanquished Nazi Germany.With monumental fairness and balance,The Conquerorsshows how Roosevelt privately refused desperate pleas to speak out directly against the Holocaust, to save Jewish refugees and to explore the possible bombing of Auschwitz to stop the killing. The book also shows FDR's fierce will to ensure that Germany would never threaten the world again. Near the end of World War II, he abruptly endorsed the secret plan of his friend, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, to reduce the Germans to a primitive existence -- despite Churchill's fear that crushing postwar Germany would let the Soviets conquer the continent. The book finally shows how, after FDR's death, President Truman rebelled against Roosevelt's tough approach and adopted the Marshall Plan and other more conciliatory policies that culminated in today's democratic, united Europe.
ANew York Timesbestseller,The Conquerorsreveals how Franklin Roosevelt's and Harry Truman's private struggles with their aides and Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin affected the unfolding of the Holocaust and the fate of vanquished Nazi Germany.With monumental fairness and balance,The Conquerorsshows how Roosevelt privately refused desperate pleas to speak out directly against the Holocaust, to save Jewish refugees and to explore the possible bombing of Auschwitz to stop the killing. The book also shows FDR's fierce will to ensure that Germany would never threaten the world again. Near the end of World War II, he abruptly endorsed the secret plan of his friend, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, to reduce the Germans to a primitive existence -- despite Churchill's fear that crushing postwar Germany would let the Soviets conquer the continent. The book finally shows how, after FDR's death, President Truman rebelled against Roosevelt's tough approach and adopted the Marshall Plan and other more conciliatory policies that culminated in today's democratic, united Europe.
A New York Times bestseller, The Conquerors reveals how Franklin Roosevelt's and Harry Truman's private struggles with their aides and Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin affected the unfolding of the Holocaust and the fate of vanquished Nazi Germany. With monumental fairness and balance, The Conquerors shows how Roosevelt privately refused desperate pleas to speak out directly against the Holocaust, to save Jewish refugees and to explore the possible bombing of Auschwitz to stop the killing. The book also shows FDR's fierce will to ensure that Germany would never threaten the world again. Near the end of World War II, he abruptly endorsed the secret plan of his friend, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, to reduce the Germans to a primitive existence -- despite Churchill's fear that crushing postwar Germany would let the Soviets conquer the continent. The book finally shows how, after FDR's death, President Truman rebelled against Roosevelt's tough approach and adopted the Marshall Plan and other more conciliatory policies that culminated in today's democratic, united Europe.
ANew York Timesbestseller,The Conquerorsreveals how Franklin Roosevelt's and Harry Truman's private struggles with their aides and Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin affected the unfolding of the Holocaust and the fate of vanquished Nazi Germany.With monumental fairness and balance,The Conquerorsshows how Roosevelt privately refused desperate pleas to speak out directly against the Holocaust, to save Jewish refugees and to explore the possible bombing of Auschwitz to stop the killing. The book also shows FDR's fierce will to ensure that Germany would never threaten the world again. Near the end of World War II, he abruptly endorsed the secret plan of his friend, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, to reduce the Germans to a primitive existence -- despite Churchill's fear that crushing postwar Germany would let the Soviets conquer the continent. The book finally shows how, after FDR's death, President Truman rebelled against Roosevelt's tough approach and adopted the Marshall Plan and other more conciliatory policies that culminated in today's democratic, united Europe.
Jim HoaglandThe Washington PostAn incomparable account.
Jim Hoagland The Washington Post An incomparable account.
Jim HoaglandThe Washington PostAn incomparable account.
Richard BernsteinThe New York TimesThe main lesson of Mr. Beschloss's fine study is that what happens after a war is as important as what happens on the battlefield.
Richard Bernstein The New York Times The main lesson of Mr. Beschloss's fine study is that what happens after a war is as important as what happens on the battlefield.
Richard BernsteinThe New York TimesThe main lesson of Mr. Beschloss's fine study is that what happens after a war is as important as what happens on the battlefield.
The New York Times Book ReviewVigorously written....This is history as it was spoken at the time, andthere is not a dull page.
The New York Times Book Review Vigorously written....This is history as it was spoken at the time, and there is not a dull page.
The New York Times Book ReviewVigorously written....This is history as it was spoken at the time, andthere is not a dull page.
The Wall Street JournalOpinion Journal, "Editor's Choice"A gripping narrative of the struggles at the end of World War II...to ensure that Nazi Germany would never be allowed to repeat its horrific acts.
The Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal, "Editor's Choice" A gripping narrative of the struggles at the end of World War II...to ensure that Nazi Germany would never be allowed to repeat its horrific acts.
The Wall Street JournalOpinion Journal, "Editor's Choice"A gripping narrative of the struggles at the end of World War II...to ensure that Nazi Germany would never be allowed to repeat its horrific acts.
Contents PREFACECHAPTER ONEThe Plot to Murder Hitler CHAPTER TWO"Unconditional Surrender" CHAPTER THREE"Fifty Thousand Germans Must Be Shot!" CHAPTER FOUR"On the Back of an Envelope" CHAPTER FIVEThe Terrible Silence CHAPTER SIXThe "One Hundred Percent American" CHAPTER SEVEN"Oppressor of the Jews" CHAPTER EIGHT"We Will Have to Get Awfully Busy" CHAPTER NINE"Not Nearly as Bad as Sending Them to Gas Chambers" CHAPTER TEN"Somebody's Got to Take the Lead" CHAPTER ELEVEN"Christianity and Kindness" CHAPTER TWELVE"It Is Very, Very Necessary" CHAPTER THIRTEEN"Do You Want Me to Beg Like Fala?" CHAPTER FOURTEEN"A Hell of a Hubbub" CHAPTER FIFTEEN"As Useful as Ten Fresh German Divisions" CHAPTER SIXTEEN"Lord Give the President Strength" CHAPTER SEVENTEEN"The Only Bond Is Their Common Hate" CHAPTER EIGHTEEN"Arguing About the Future of the World" CHAPTER NINETEEN"No Earthly Powers Can Keep Him Here" CHAPTER TWENTY"What Will We Make of It?" CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE"I Was Never in Favor of That Crazy Plan" CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO"You and I Will Have to Bear Great Responsibility" CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE"How I Hate This Trip!" CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR"We Are Drifting Toward a Line Down the Center of Germany" CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE"The Spirit and Soul of a People Reborn" CHAPTER TWENTY-SIXThe Conquerors AUTHOR'S NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS GENERAL SOURCES NOTES INDEX
ContentsPREFACECHAPTER ONEThe Plot to Murder Hitler?CHAPTER TWO"Unconditional Surrender"?CHAPTER THREE"Fifty Thousand Germans Must Be Shot!"?CHAPTER FOUR"On the Back of an Envelope"?CHAPTER FIVEThe Terrible Silence?CHAPTER SIXThe "One Hundred Percent American"?CHAPTER SEVEN"Oppressor of the Jews"?CHAPTER EIGHT"We Will Have to Get Awfully Busy"?CHAPTER NINE"Not Nearly as Bad as Sending Them to Gas Chambers"?CHAPTER TEN"Somebody's Got to Take the Lead"?CHAPTER ELEVEN"Christianity and Kindness"?CHAPTER TWELVE"It Is Very, Very Necessary"?CHAPTER THIRTEEN"Do You Want Me to Beg Like Fala?"?CHAPTER FOURTEEN"A Hell of a Hubbub"?CHAPTER FIFTEEN"As Useful as Ten Fresh German Divisions"?CHAPTER SIXTEEN"Lord Give the President Strength"?CHAPTER SEVENTEEN"The Only Bond Is Their Common Hate"?CHAPTER EIGHTEEN"Arguing About the Future of the World"?CHAPTER NINETEEN"No Earthly Powers Can Keep Him Here"?CHAPTER TWENTY"What Will We Make of It?"?CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE"I Was Never in Favor of That Crazy Plan"?CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO"You and I Will Have to Bear Great Responsibility"?CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE"How I Hate This Trip!"?CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR"We Are Drifting Toward a Line Down the Center of Germany"?CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE"The Spirit and Soul of a People Reborn"?CHAPTER TWENTY-SIXThe Conquerors?AUTHOR'S NOTE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS?GENERAL SOURCES?NOTES?INDEX?9780743244541
Based on thousands of pages of newly opened documents and detailed notes by the highest-level players, this acclaimed book reveals how FDR and Truman's private struggles with their allies and aides affected the unfolding of the Holocaust and the fate of vanquished Nazi Germany.

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저자(글) Beschloss, Michael R.

Michael Beschloss has been called "the nation's leading Presidential historian" by Newsweek. He has written nine books on American Presidents and is NBC News Presidential Historian, as well as contributor to PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife.

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• Preface	p. ix
  The Plot to Murder Hitler	p. 1
  "Unconditional Surrender"	p. 9
  "Fifty Thousand Germans Must Be Shot!"	p. 18
  "On the Back of an Envelope"	p. 29
  The Terrible Silence	p. 38
  The "One Hundred Percent American"	p. 44
  "Oppressor of the Jews"	p. 56
  "We Will Have to Get Awfully Busy"	p. 70
  "Not Nearly as Bad as Sending Them to Gas Chambers"	p. 82
  "Somebody's Got to Take the Lead"	p. 91
  "Christianity and Kindness"	p. 98
  "It Is Very, Very Necessary"	p. 113
  "Do You Want Me to Beg Like Fala?"	p. 121
  "A Hell of a Hubbub"	p. 136
  "As Useful as Ten Fresh German Divisions"	p. 150
  "Lord Give the President Strength"	p. 166
  "The Only Bond Is Their Common Hate"	p. 178
  "Arguing About the Future of the World"	p. 189
  "No Earthly Powers Can Keep Him Here"	p. 203
  "What Will We Make of It?"	p. 216
  "I Was Never in Favor of That Crazy Plan"	p. 226
  "You and I Will Have to Bear Great Responsibility"	p. 238
  "How I Hate This Trip!"	p. 247
  "We Are Drifting Toward a Line Down the Center of Germany"	p. 260
  "The Spirit and Soul of a People Reborn"	p. 271
  The Conquerors	p. 283
  Author's Note and Acknowledgments	p. 293
  General Sources	p. 297
  Notes	p. 315
  Index	p. 361
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ISBN	9780743244541 ( 0743244540 )
발행(출시)일자	2003년 10월 07일
쪽수	377쪽
크기	157 * 234 * 29 mm / 463 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어