A biography of Mildred Harnack (by her great-great-niece), the American woman who worked with political activists in Berlin1930s and then, when WW2 broke out, with the German resitance. She was captured and executed in 1943. An extraordinary and gripping tale that gives substance to the leafleting that Fallada wrote about in ‘Alone in Berlin’.
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
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£16.99
Edition:Hardback978178689219505/08/2021
Categories: 02. Summer Books 2021: Biography, Biography, Letters & Diaries, History, Summer Books 2021
Tags: Memoirs, Second World War
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