The Night of the Generals
Author: H H Kirst
 
The sordid murder of a Polish prostitute would not normally have aroused much attention in Warsaw in 1942. But in this case all the evidence points to a German General as the murderer, or rather, to one of three generals: a Corps Commander, scion of the old Germany; his Chief of Staff, who concealed his true nature behind a mask of flippant irony; and a commander of the elite Nibelungen Division, who looked like a statue portraying heroism.
A similar crime was committed in Paris in July 1944, when the same three generals were assembled there. The investigators were on the point of proving their case when they were frustrated by the dramatic 'Night of the Generals' - the attempted coup against Hitler.
But in 1956 a third murder occurred in Dresden . . .
 
FONTANA BOOKS 1974 EDITION
ISBN: 0006123015