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Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance in the Last Year of WWII by Randall Hansen is the true story of how and why key figures in the German military ignored Hitler's demands to destroy all before them at the end of the war.

About the Author

Randall Hansen is Director of the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and a Chair in Politics at the University of Toronto. His last book, The Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-5 was published in 2008 to great acclaim and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award. He divides his time between Toronto and Berlin.