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History lavishes its attention on successful assassins; the failures usually get footnotes, at best. In the 23 years since his death by firing squad, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the German officer whose attempt to assassinate Hitler with a planted bomb was foiled by a freakish chance, has rarely rated more than brief references. Now German Historian Joachim Kramarz has pieced together the unfortunately sketchy materials on Count Stauffenberg's life and his daring plot in a readable full-length biography...
WALTER H. GRAF...
TOKEN OF A COVENANT by Hans Graf von Lehndorff. 328 pages. Regnery...
...Potter, executive director of the sponsoring Protestant Council, says: "It is not Christ who is being depicted at all. Everyone must make up his own mind about it after he has seen it." Disagreeing with Potter's denial is the Rev. Charles H. Graf, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. "It is the betrayal in the garden, the awful death on the scaffold, Good Friday all the way, but no Easter morn. It is adult but not entertainment; it is a circus but not for children...
...Slipper's Heel. At first, the ship's souls seem a normally various lot-some promising; some, like the Prussified captain, obvious pigs; others, like Herr Graf, a sick, querulous religious fanatic so far beyond the usual range of the mind's eye that at first look they seem irrelevant...