Alex Colville

An eye in the storm

He was an influential figure, who despised Hitler and might have joined the Stauffenberg plot; but he preferred to let the Third Reich destroy itself

  • A German Officer in Occupied Paris: The War Journals, 1941–1945

    Ernst Jünger, translated from the German by Thomas S. Hansen and Abby J. Hansen

    Columbia University Press, pp. 496

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