Song Before It Is Sung

On 20 July l944 Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped death when an assassin''s bomb failed to kill him in his Eastern command, the Wolf''s Lair. The conspirators were hunted down and hanged from meat-hooks, and their executions were filmed. Among them was Axel von Gottberg.

Sixty years after his death, von Gottberg''s close friend and now a legendary Oxford professor, Elya Mendel, leaves a legacy of paper...