Resistance, Espionage And Courage In Hitler’s Europe
Jonathan Freedland tells a wartime story of resistance and betrayal with the pace of a thriller and the authority of serious history. It is a gripping choice for readers who want real moral stakes, vivid personalities and a fresh angle on the Second World War.
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Resistance, Espionage And Courage In Hitler’s Europe
Jonathan Freedland tells a wartime story of resistance and betrayal with the pace of a thriller and the authority of serious history. It is a gripping choice for readers who want real moral stakes, vivid personalities and a fresh angle on the Second World War.
- Book Synopsis
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Ideal for readers who:
- Keep coming back to gripping Second World War history
- Will be pulled in by a circle of resistance, espionage and betrayal under Nazi rule
- Would relish time spent in wartime Europe at its most dangerous
- Prefer narrative history that reads with the tension of a thriller
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ESCAPE ARTIST 'Magnificent . . . Important and impressive' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Astonishing . . . Freedland is a master' MICK HERRON 'Remarkable . . .
This is how the best history books will be written in the future' ANDREW ROBERTS 'Excellent . . . Perfect reading for this moment' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'Utterly gripping, brilliantly researched and written' ANTHONY HOROWITZ 'Compelling' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES 'Thrilling, humane, and deeply moving . . . Not to be missed' DAVID Mc CLOSKEY 'Totally gripping and timely' JONATHAN DIMBLEBY 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 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 Führer'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? And who betrayed them? Undone from within and pursued to near-destruction by one of the Reich's cruellest men, they showed a heroism that raises a question with new urgency for our time: what kind of person does it take to risk everything and stand up to tyranny?
- About The Author
- Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist and former foreign correspondent. He has been named Columnist of the Year and Commentator of the Year and has won an Orwell Prize for Journalism. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series, The Long View, as well as two popular podcasts, Politics Weekly America and Unholy, the latter alongside the journalist Yonit Levi. This is his fourth work of non-fiction, the most recent of which is the award-winning The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World. He has written nine thrillers, eight of them under the name Sam Bourne, including The Righteous Men which was a Sunday Times number one bestseller and has sold over two million copies worldwide. His new book The Traitors Circle is coming soon.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781399813686
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- John Murray, (11 September 2025)
- Number of Pages
- 480
- Weight
- 614 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 232 x 152 x 46 mm
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