All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days - The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler. Ausgezeichnet: PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, 2022. Ausgezeichnet: National Book Critics Circle Award for Bio
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| Verlag | Canongate Books |
| Auflage | 2022 |
| Seiten | 576 |
| Format | 13,1 x 3,7 x 19,9 cm |
| Print PDF | |
| Gewicht | 391 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781786892218 |
| Bestell-Nr | 78689221UA |
SELECTED AS A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
A SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2022
Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six and living in Germany when she witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. She began holding secret meetings in her apartment, forming a small band of political activists set on helping Jews escape, denouncing Hitler and calling for revolution. When the Second World War began, she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies.
In this astonishing work of non-fiction, Harnack's great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on extensive archival research, fusing elements of biography, political thriller and scholarly detective story to tell a powerful, epic tale of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history.
Rezension:
Reads like a thriller . . . Written in a pacey, suspenseful present tense, it's biography with a pulse . . . a superb, sure-footed work of historical detection conceived with a powerful intelligence Sunday Times
