{"product_id":"the-traitors-circle-the-true-story-of-a-secret-resistance-network-in-nazi-germany-and-the-spy-who-betrayed-them-9780063453111","title":"The Traitors Circle: The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany--And the Spy Who Betrayed Them","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"An astonishing true story of courage, love, and betrayal, told with the verve of a thriller. Freedland is a master at weaving spellbinding entertainments drawn from forgotten corners of history.\"--Mick Herron, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eSlow Horses\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the\u003cem\u003e New York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Escape Artist, \u003c\/em\u003ean extraordinary true story of resistance, heroism and betrayal.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen the whole world is lying, someone must tell the truth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerlin, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey 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 head mistress. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUndone 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFreedland, Jonathan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJonathan Freedland\u003c\/strong\u003e is a \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e columnist and former foreign correspondent. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series, \u003cem\u003eThe Long View\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as two popular podcasts, \u003cem\u003ePolitics Weekly America\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eUnholy, \u003c\/em\u003e the latter alongside the journalist Yonit Levi. He is the author of twelve other books, including the award-winning \u003cem\u003eThe Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Large Print","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51676305654034,"sku":"9780063453111","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_796f67f9-2e3d-4431-a7ee-8c5a33f651c1.jpg?v=1761054002","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-traitors-circle-the-true-story-of-a-secret-resistance-network-in-nazi-germany-and-the-spy-who-betrayed-them-9780063453111","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}