Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) eighteen months after the Nazis came to power. But Canaris slowly turned against the Fuhrer and the Nazi regime and from about 1940 he began to sabotage Hitler's war strategy from within. For years he played a dangerous double game, desperately trying to keep one step ahead of the Gestapo. The SS chief, Heinrich Himmler became suspicious of the Abwehr and by 1944, when Abwehr personnel were involved in the attempted assassination of Hitler, he had the evidence to arrest Canaris himself. Canaris was executed a few weeks before the end of the war.
- ISBN10 1306615844
- ISBN13 9781306615846
- Publish Date 1 January 2012 (first published 12 August 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 February 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pegasus Books
- Format eBook
- Language English