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Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six and living in Germany when she witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. She began holding secret meetings in her apartment, forming a small band of political activists set on helping Jews escape, denouncing Hitler and calling for revolution. When the Second World War began, she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies.
In this astonishing work of non-fiction, Harnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on extensive archival research, fusing elements of biography, political thriller and scholarly detective story to tell a powerful, epic tale of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history.
About the author
Rebecca Donner is a 2023-2024 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard and was recently a Visiting Scholar at Oxford. Her third book is the New York Times bestseller All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, a deeply researched fusion of biography, espionage thriller, and scholarly detective story that won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award, and the Chautauqua Prize. In 2022, Rebecca Donner was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.
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