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1. An amazing book. Deadly Risks offers a fictional, but seemingly realistic look at the JFK assasination. I have never been a huge history buff, but after reading this book, I became fixated with some of the events that actually happened during JFK's time as president. And whether you you grew up during that time or not(I did not), some of this material I found truly fascinating and shocking.
   
   From start to finish, it's a fast-paced book that I highly recommend.

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1. i took this ooout of the library and didnt finish and decided it was 2 good so i bgt it and it is so interesting and if u imagine being there it is even funny-- buy it and really read it and u will b transported 2 another era.

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5 comments about Heroes or Traitors: The German Replacement Army, the July Plot, and Adolf Hitler.

1. What a disappointment! I bought this book because it was billed as a study of the "German Replacement Army, the July Plot and Adolf Hitler." I think it was a reasonable assumption to expect a analysis of the role of the replacement or Home army in the July bomb plot. Not so! Instead I got a detailed analysis of what division was where and when with virtually no useful discussion of the use of the Home army in the bomb plot. The fly leaf is indicative of the depth of analysis - it repeats the old chestnut that the officers involved in the July coup only launched their conspiracy when the war turned sour for Hitler. The author can't even get Generaloberst Freidrich Fromm's name right - and he commanded that army! Not to matter I guess as he's only referred to on a couple of pages - got to leave room for all those fascinating division numbers! If you want to know the Home army's order of battle at various times, buy this book. If you want a scholarly analysis of the role of Home army in the July plot, buy Peter Hoffmann's "History of the German Resistance."



2. Serious warning for all prospective readers of this book: this is the most misleading title ever created. This book has almost nothing about about the July 20,1944 bomb plot by Count von Staufenberg against Hitler. Of course you'd think this would be about that topic since the title mentions this event. Forget it! Instead, it's a lengthy, boring and ultimately unreadable account of the German Home Front in 1944-45. That's a fairly interesting subject, but not when you expect to read something about July 20, 1944. I didn't even finish this twaddle, Hitler appears on a scant 14 pages, Staufenberg is a non-entity here. A crushing disappointment.



3. I can only reinforce the misgivings of the earlier reviewers.
   
   The author postulates that the failure of the German Army to field a large number of new divisions in early 1944 was a deliberate attempt to hold back manpower from the front for an internal coup to accompany the Bomb Plot in July 1944.
   
   However, he then fails completely to offer any evidence of a causal connection. As a result, on its central theme this book is closer to conspiracy theory than history.
   
   This is a pity, as the German Replacement Army was a major military institution that badly needs a good study. This disappointing book is very definitely not it.



4. Although this book has some weak points, like the repetitions of the author's arguments and the dry writing style in some cases, it has also some great merits for the military history buffs. Mr Dunn may be not the gifted storyteller but he has done a lot of research on his subject and he can speak by numbers which I think is very impressive and useful for the real student of World War II. The book is full of statistics and details about the Replacement Army, its units and how these were withheld from the battlefronts in the crucial period of spring 1944. I think though that the real gems of the book are the analytical accounts of how the German Army was defeated in Normandy and Belorussia due to lack of reserves. Overall, this is not the book to pass your time nor an easy read, but very useful as a reference source.



5. A typical Dunn book, written in execrable English but a gold-mine of information.IT IS NOT A HISTORY OF THE JULY PLOT, as some reviewers seem to have thought when they bought the book. Dunn's hypothesis -that the group of conspirators around the command of the replacement army used the "Walküre" planning to hoard military manpower in Germany for eventual use in the coup attempt and therefore, unwittingly or not, assisted considerably in the Allied victories of 1944 by cutting the fairly steady flow of new and reconstituted divisions to the German fronts- is very controversial and in all honesty I do not know enough (except that it was tense) about the manpower situation of the Reich in 1944. It is true, however, that German divisions in both France and the Russian Central Front that had not been heavily engaged in the winter-early spring 43-44 had full personnel complements and their reinforcement according to German practice could only be effected by creating further divisions. Dunn tries to be persuasive about his point, but further study on this topic is required. Recommended reading for anyone with interest in Second World War strategy and German Army organizational issues.