The traitors circle : the rebels against the Nazis and the spy who betrayed them / Jonathan Freedland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freedland, Jonathan, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anti-Nazi movement--Germany--History--20th century.

Anti-Nazi movement.

Spies--Germany.

Spies.

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Germany.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xix, 456 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : John Murray , 2025.

Summary:

Berlin, 1943. A group of high-society anti-Nazi dissenters meet for a tea party one late summer afternoon. They do not know that, sitting around the table, is someone poised to betray them all to the Gestapo - revealing their secret to the Nazis' most ruthless detective. 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 headmistress. Meeting in the shadows, rescuing Jews or plotting for a future Germany freed from the F|hrer's rule, what unites them is a shared loathing of the Nazis, a refusal to bow to Hitler and the courage to perform perilous acts of resistance. 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?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781399813679

1399813676

9781399813686

1399813684

OCLC:

1536000187

Publisher Number:

90102827175