This book examines the role of one of the most charismatic leaders of the opposition to the Nazis within Germany. Adam von Trott zu Solz was a boy when Germany was militarily defeated in 1918, and during his youth, he witnessed the nation’s economic collapse. He was studying at Oxford University when Hitler came to power in 1933 and was convinced that opposition to the Nazis must come from within Germany rather than from the outside. Hitler enjoyed enormous support as the economy improved and, after 1939, as the German armies ravaged at will through Western Europe. Yet von Trott, by now a senior official in the Foreign Office, traveled frequently to Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey to talk with British and American contacts, pleading unsuccessfully for recognition of the resisters. In July 1944, he was one of the leaders of the group that attempted to assassinate Hitler. Refusing all offers to smuggle him out of Germany, he was executed on August 26, 1944, at the young age of 35. Based on extensive research and talks with some of those who knew von Trott, this book details the life of a man of brilliant intellect who refused to compromise his conscience and who sacrificed himself during a noble cause.