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SELECTED AS A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2022Born 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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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, Rebecca Donner
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- Année de publication
- 2022
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- Titre
- All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Rebecca Donner
- Éditeur
- Canongate Books Ltd.
- Publié
- 2022
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 576
- ISBN10
- 1786892219
- ISBN13
- 9781786892218
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Thème historique, Histoire, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Histoire militaire, Allemagne, Seconde Guerre mondiale
- Évaluation
- 4,35 sur 5
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- SELECTED AS A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKA SUNDAY TIMES BEST PAPERBACK OF 2022Born 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.