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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
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"[Harro Schulze-Boysen and Libertas Haas-Heye] were leading a network of ani-fascist fighters that stretched across Berlin's bohemian underworld. Poets, philosophers, workers, and artists, they were all freethinkers united by a desire to bring down Hitler at any cost. Harro himself infiltrated German intelligence and began funneling Nazi battle plans to the Allies... Libertas used her position at the propaganda ministry to begin collecting evidence...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
'All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days' is the true story of the life and death of Mildred Harnack, the American leader of the largest underground resistance group in Berlin, who was executed on Hitler's direct orders. Fusing elements of biography, political thriller, and scholarly detective story, Harnack's great-great-niece Rebecca Donner interweaves family archives, original research, exclusive interviews with survivors, and a trove of declassified...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An enthralling story of one family's extraordinary courage and resistance amidst the horrors of war from the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Rooms. As war swept across Europe in 1940, the idyllic life of Fey von Hassell seemed a world away from the conflict. The daughter of Ulrich von Hassell, Hitler's Ambassador to Italy, her marriage to Italian aristocrat Detalmo Pirzio-Biroli brought with it a castle and an estate in the north...
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