The Valley of the Shadow Author:Hanns Lilje In he summer of 1944, after the failure of the General's Plot to assassinate Hitler, Hanns Lilje joined the thousands whom the Gestapo swept into prison. An accomplished writer, the author tells, with cogent observations and expert delineation of character, of his companions in distress, of his cross-examination by the notorious Dr. Neuhaus, wh... more »o willed his victims' death, of the strange mass trial before the Supreme German Court, of evidences and effect of the collapse of the Hitler regime as seen from inside prison, and liberation by the American army.« less