The traitor's circle : the true story of a secret resistance network in Nazi Germany--and the spy who betrayed them / Jonathan Freedland.
"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's afternoon. They do not know that, sitting around the table, is someone poised to betray them all to the Gestapo. 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. What unites every one of them is a shared loathing of the Nazis, a refusal to bow to Hitler, and the courage to perform perilous acts of resistance: meeting in the shadows, rescuing Jews or plotting for a future Germany freed from the Führer's rule. 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? Undone from within and pursued to near-destruction by one of the Reich's cruelest men, they showed a heroism in the face of the most vengeful regime in history that raises the question: what kind of person does it take to risk everything and stand up to tyranny?"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063373204
- ISBN: 0063373203
- Physical Description: xix, 456 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "Originally published in Great Britain in 2025 by John Murray (Publishers)."
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-437) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Prologue -- Part I: The guests. The end of Germany -- The diplomat -- The countess -- The widow and her daughter -- The headmistress -- In the room -- The circle -- The Night of Broken Glass -- Someone must tell the truth -- The detective -- Time to die -- A spy in our midst -- Trial run -- A secret funeral -- The walk to freedom -- Cast out -- Present at the creation -- The path of resistance -- The blonde poison -- A bomb on a plane -- Closing in -- A secret mission -- Go on, shoot -- The breakthrough -- An invitation to tea -- Agent Robby -- An unexpected guest -- Kindred spirits -- A traitor to the circle -- Part II: After the party. Secret listeners -- A mole at HQ -- Sixth sense -- Be warned -- Across the border -- Double bluff -- Silk and lace -- Himmler decides -- Dawn raids -- Free no more -- Part III: Prisoners. The fall -- The first round -- Ravensbrück -- Threats and menaces -- Body and soul -- The fallout -- The bridge of love -- The scourge of guilt -- The hands of God -- All but a miracle -- Fate has intervened -- Part IV: The trial. The court -- The hanging judge -- In the dock -- 'Anti-state person' -- Star witness -- The verdict -- Part V: Punishment. Killing Hitler -- 'The Führer Adolf Hitler is dead' -- A name on a list -- The butcher's hook -- Operation Swedish furniture -- Death row -- The murder register -- The dead centre -- Indicted, again -- An exquisite deliverance -- Part VI: After the war. Into the daylight -- Bearing witness -- Through the generations -- Part VII: The traitor. 'The defendant is to blame' -- 'A congenital psychopathy' -- 'Such dirty things' -- 'Can you sleep?' -- Betrayal.
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