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Excerpt from Film The culturally privileged demand a more complicated satis faction. They require, because they are. Educated to assimilate it, the aesthetic aspect, of the arts, ' the highly complex form behind the Shakespearean play and the Shakespearean verse, the beauty of composition in the Greek vase or statue, the carefully balanced aesthetic and psychological values of Renaissance portraiture, and the investigations into the associative values of language in T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. The old and established arts, whether they be crafts or fine arts, have evolved in the course of time a tradition which governs their various forms and the legitimate and illegitimate use of their various mediums - words, paint and canvas, wood and stone, the variety of musical sounds. The long and elaborate history of these arts is the story of the young artists in revolt against the tradition established by their elders and predecessors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

An enormous success upon its original publication in 1964, The Men Who Tried to Kill Hitler investigates the July 20, 1944, bombing of Hitler’s infamous Wolf’s Lair, a conspiracy led by Claus von Stauffenberg, a staff insider with access to the Führer. The first book to reveal the truth about the now infamous Operation Valkyrie, The Men Who Tried to Kill Hitler is “one of the most readable stories ever written about the war” ( Sunday Times ). This classic is an exciting and shocking tale of modern sabotage packed with first-hand information about Stauffenberg’s tragic failed attempt on Hitler’s life. Written when those involved were still alive and testifying, Manvell and Fraenkel’s account is the most powerful and candid telling of the near-miss assassination of Hitler ever written.

Aby zrozumieć w pełni, jak naziści zdołali osiągnąć swój cel w tak krótkim czasie, nie wolno skupiać się wyłącznie na osobie Hitlera, lecz należy poświęcić równie dużo uwagi osobliwemu, odpychającemu, niebezpiecznemu, a jednocześnie fascynującemu człowiekowi, jakim był Joseph Goebbels. - ze Wstępu Klasyczna praca Marvella i Fraenkla jest portretem Goebbelsa-człowieka i Goebbelsa-geniusza propagandy. Joseph Goebbels był zapewne najbardziej inteligentnym i zarazem niebezpiecznym członkiem nazistowskiej hierarchii. Ten fanatyczny i cyniczny wielbiciel środków masowego przekazu za pomocą nowych wówczas mediów radia i filmu dźwiękowego - tak umiejętnie omotał Niemców, że postanowili oddać władzę w ręce Hitlera, a następnie podporządkować całe państwo nazistowskiej ideologii, która doprowadziła do wybuchu najstraszniejszej wojny w historii ludzkości.