Hans Hellmut Kirst, THE NIGHT OF THE GENERALS, Translated from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn, First American Edition, New York: Harper & Row, 1963, pp319.

This is a rare book, and its story has been made into a movie.

This is a powerful World War 2 thriller about a German general who becomes a serial killer. When a Polish prostitute is brutally murdered in German-occupied Warsaw, her killer is identified as a German general.

The investigator, Major Grau narrows the suspects to three generals in the German high command: the heroic Tanz, the cynical Kahlenberge, and the weak Von Seidlitz-Gabler. For years the crime remains unsolved, until the killer strikes again, bringing this mesmerizing mystery to its unforgettable finish.

Read this book and find out the full story.

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