New York: Harper & Row, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the 36 hours leading up to the 20 July 1944 attempt of Hitler's life - a book which is a combination of historical fiction, biography, and intellectual history. It is also an exploration of Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenber's complicated life as a charismatic officer, and soldier, badly injured in Tunisia, and as an aristocrat, an amateur cellist, a friend of poet Stefan George and as a man who tried and failed to change history. Includes an introduction in which West explains how he came to write this book, and two appendices with names and places in the book, and maps. xii, 365 pp. ISBN: 0-06014593.