02800cam a2200361 4500 544126478 TxAuBib 20211014120000.0 210722s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020951489 9780316561693 hc. $32.00 031656169X hc. $32.00 (OCoLC)1261060080 NjBwBT eng rda FSP FSP OCLCQ LPU OCLCO LEB OCLCO OQX WIQ OTP YDX BDX AZZPT GK8 MJ8 FTL OCLCO OCLCF ILC YU6 TXM NGU TXL TxAuBib Donner, Rebecca. All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler / Rebecca Donner. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. ©2021. xiv, 560 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-544) and index. Part biography, part political thriller, part scholarly detective story that draws on letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, and other documents, this true story chronicles the life and brutal death of Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany. Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings with a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court she was sentenced to six years at a prison camp, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16, 1943, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. Harnack's great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on archival research in Germany, Russia, England, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to reconstruct the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history. -- 20211014. Harnack-Fish, Mildred 1902-1943. Rote Kapelle (Resistance group.) Anti-Nazi movement Germany Berlin Biography. World War, 1939-1945 Underground movements Germany Berlin. Espionage Germany Berlin History 20th century. Executions and executioners Germany History 20th century. Americans Germany Biography. TXSTN