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The Traitors Circle

The Rebels Against the Nazis and the Spy Who Betrayed Them

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ESCAPE ARTIST


'Magnificent . . . Important and impressive'
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'Astonishing . . . Freedland is a master'
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'Remarkable . . . This is how the best history books will be written in the future'
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'Utterly gripping, brilliantly researched and written'
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'Thrilling, humane, and deeply moving . . . Not to be missed'
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'Totally gripping and timely'
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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?

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Authors:
Freedland, Jonathan
Year Published:
2025
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Format:
Hardback
Illustrations Note:
20 black & white photographs
ISBN:
9781399813679
Number of Pages:
480
Publication Date:
11/09/2025
Publisher:
John Murray Press
Language:
English
SKU:
9781399813679

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