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'Utterly gripping, brilliantly researched and written'
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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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The Traitors Circle 9781399813679 Hardback
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The Traitors circle
Brilliantly researched and so easy to read and absorb the people and their lives. It has left it's mark on me.
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The Traitors Circle
A book about the resistance against Nazi terror. Too bad The Guardian Bookshop used DHL to ship the book, a company shipping weapons to Israel for another genocide. I won't be buying from you again.
- 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