Luck of the Devil

The story behind Bryan Singer's major new film Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise, from one of Britain's best historians.

The July 1944 Plot to kill Ado... » 

The story behind Bryan Singer's major new film Valkyrie, starring Tom Cruise, from one of Britain's best historians.

The July 1944 Plot to kill Adolf Hitler was a desperate attempt by a group of senior officers to redeem Germany's honour and end the Second World War. They were heroic because they knew their chances of success were slight and that the result of their failure would undoubtedly be a terrible death. They wanted to leave a message for later generations: that there were Germans who understood the evils of Nazism and were willing to act against it. «