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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler cover

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

Rebecca Donner

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#105 of 3,809 books · #59 in Biography & Memoir

Won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2021) and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography (2022). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days was selected as a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. 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.

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Publisher
Canongate Books
ISBN-13
9781786892201
Topics
German resistance to HitlerWorld War II espionageWomen in history
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