All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days

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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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

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Donner, Donner Rebecca
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781786892218
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-221-8
• No. of pages: 576
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Memoirs, Second World War, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs