Tiem and again, small numbers of Germans, civilian nad military, noble and ignoble, scheme to topple the Fuhrer, and on several occasions they came within minutes - or inches - of succeeding. Fest explores why they tried, why they found so little support either in Germany or outside it, and why they failed.

Laughter of Carthage

by Michael Moorcock

Published 3 September 1984
The second volume of a quartet featuring Dimitri Pyatnitski - student, polymath, engineer, braggart, addict and survivor. Pyatnitski (Colonel Pyat) finds that escape from the Russian Revolution is complicated, as he leaps from crisis to crisis. Further troubles await him in Rome and Paris.