The Traitors Circle
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The Traitors Circle

The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany—and the Spy Who Betrayed Them

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eBook - ePub

The Traitors Circle

The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany—and the Spy Who Betrayed Them

About this book

"An astonishing true story of courage, love, and betrayal, told with the verve of a thriller. Freedland is a master at weaving spellbinding entertainments drawn from forgotten corners of history."—Mick Herron, bestselling author of Slow Horses

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Escape Artist, an extraordinary true story of resistance, heroism and betrayal.

When the whole world is lying, someone must tell the truth.

Berlin, 1943: A group of high society anti-Nazi dissenters meet for a tea party one late summer’s afternoon. They do not know that, sitting around the table, is someone poised to betray them all to the Gestapo.

They form a circle of unlikely rebels, drawn from the German elite: two countesses, a diplomat, an intelligence officer, an ambassador’s widow and a pioneering head mistress. What unites every one of them is a shared loathing of the Nazis, a refusal to bow to Hitler and the courage to perform perilous acts of resistance: meeting in the shadows, rescuing Jews or plotting for a future Germany freed from the Führer's rule. Or so they believe.

How did a group of brave, principled rebels, who had successfully defied Adolf Hitler for more than a decade, come to fall into such a lethal trap?

Undone from within and pursued to near-destruction by one of the Reich’s cruelest men, they showed a heroism in the face of the most vengeful regime in history that raises the question: what kind of person does it take to risk everything and stand up to tyranny?

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Information

Publisher
Harper
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9780063373228

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Maps
  4. Note to Readers
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. About the Sources
  8. Author’s Note
  9. Cast of Characters
  10. Prologue
  11. Part I: The Guests
  12. Part II: After the Party
  13. Part III: Prisoners
  14. Part IV: The Trial
  15. Part V: Punishment
  16. Part VI: After the War
  17. Part VII: The Traitor
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. Bibliography
  20. Notes
  21. Index
  22. Photo Section
  23. About the Author
  24. Also by Jonathan Freedland
  25. Copyright
  26. About the Publisher