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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Escape Artist comes the extraordinary true story of a group of daring Germans who risked everything to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust. The Traitors Circle tells the true, but scarcely known, story of a group of secret rebels against Hitler. Drawn from Berlin high society, they include army officers, government officials, two countesses, an ambassador''s widow and a former model--meeting in the shadows, whether hiding and rescuing Jews or plotting for a Germany freed from Nazi rule. One day in September 1943 they gather for a tea party--unaware that one among them is about to betray them all to the Gestapo. But who is the betrayer of a circle themselves branded "traitors''"by the cruelest regime in history? In another page-turning work of nonfiction that reads like a thriller, Jonathan Freedland, acclaimed author of The Escape Artist , sheds light on one of the most dramatic episodes of the second world war, telling a story of courage, resistance and ultimate betrayal that has deep moral resonance for our own time, and asks what kind of person it takes to risk everything and stand up to tyranny.
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"Riveting . . . . The Escape Artist includes harrowing details about Auschwitz that still have the power to shock. But the reactions to Vrba's testimony by those in power-ranging from lack of interest to outright antisemitism-are nearly as horrifying. . . . The next time an abyss yawns before us-whether it be in Kyiv or in Washington, D.C.-we owe it to them to stare into it." - New York Times
"Raw and gripping . . . [a] compelling portrait of this neglected hero of Holocaust resistance leaves an inescapable imprint of a past now in danger of being minimized or forgotten. . . . It's time to honor him for the incredible feat that helped save so many Jewish lives from Nazi extermination." - Wall Street Journal
"A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information - and misinformation. Is it possible to stop mass murder by telling the truth?" - Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
"This isn't a book just about Auschwitz, it's also a deeply moving biography about Rudolf the man including his (entirely understandably) tempestuous and troubled life after the war. He died almost forgotten, and Freedland's brilliant research and writing rightly resurrect him. His story must be told and read: a brave man who did his best to warn a world which wouldn't listen." - Financial Times
"I thought I knew the Auschwitz story, but Freedland retells it from a fresh angle so powerfully that I read it with my heart beating fast, full of horror, rage, despair - and admiration for this potent demonstration of the stubborn resilience of the human spirit." - Tracy Chevalier, bestselling author of The Girl with the Pearl Earring
