Hitler's Spy Chief

Admiral Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to head the Abwehr (the German secret service) eighteen months after the Nazis came to power. But Canaris turned against the F?hrer and the Nazi regime, believing that Hitler would start a war Germany could not win. In 1938 he was involved in an attempted coup, undermined by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. In a riveting true story of intrigue and espionage, Richard Bassett reveals how Admiral Canaris 's secret work against the German leadership changed the course of World War II.