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same token, Magub was not able to turn up much in the way of new material on Jung’s role in the conspiracy that led to his death, in large part for the reasons already mentioned. (A recent study by Rainer Orth, “Der Amtsstiz der Opposition”? Politik und Staatsumbaupläne im Büro des Stellvertreters des Reichskanzlers in den Jahren 1933-1934 [2016], brings to bear new material and information on Jung’s role in the events that triggered the Röhm blood purge in the summer of 1934.) This is nevertheless a good book well worth reading. It is a careful and judicious account of Jung’s short life that sheds important new light on the career of one of the most enigmatic figures on the GermanRight during this period. A self-proclaimed “conservative revolutionary,” Jung found it difficult to translate his ideas into political practice, a dilemma he shared with many of his contemporaries.