The Power of Solitude

Julie M. Winter is co-director of the Foreign Language Institute in Helena, Montana, and the author of Luther Bible Research in the Context of Volkish Nationalism in the Twentieth Century. Peter Hoffmann is William Kingsford Professor of History at McGill University in Montreal. His works include Stauffenberg: A Family History, 1905-1944.

"One of the great questions about the Nazi era in Germany has always been why no organized opposition emerged until the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Hitler's life in 1944. Marion Yorck von Wartenburg's The Power of Solitude addresses this issue with remarkable clarity...Von Wartenburg brings a personal perspective as she describes the arrest, trial, and execution of her husband and his friends, and her own arrest and imprisonment... Her description of the years following the death of her husband and the end of the war is deeply moving... This memoir ... gives us a fascinating look at historical events from the perspective of a bravely defiant German woman. Her account supplies background information gained through her personal involvement in the resistance to Nazism and will be of special interest to any student of the period. It is also a well-told human story that will keep the reader glued to the book until its final moments."-Bloomsbury Review Bloomsbury Review