The History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945. 3rd ed.

J.L. Granatstein is a professor of history at York University, the
co-author of the Dictionary of Canadian Military History and Empire to
Umpire: Canada and the World to the 1990s, and the author of The Good
Fight.

Now in its third edition, this book is the standard history of the
German resistance to Hitler. Hoffman specializes in massive research:
his footnotes absorb almost 200 pages, his bibliography is massive, and
his appendices provide detail not included in his already comprehensive
text. The bulk of the book, as might be expected, is focused on the July
1944 attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler, but Hoffman’s research goes
all the way back to the Nazis’ accession to power in 1933. The
resisters were brave people who deserve to be memorialized, but as
Hoffman’s exhaustive work shows, they were sometimes misguided in
their expectations of the welcome they might receive from the Allies.
The resistance was mistrusted by Churchill and others because they acted
as if they were expecting to hold on to at least some of Germany’s
conquests. Still, any enemy of my enemy is my friend; the resistance
merited more support than it received, which was precious little.