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All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xiv, 560 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
Summary:
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.
Contents:
The boy with the blue knapsack (1939) -- I (1902-1933). We must change this situation as soon as possible -- Yankee Doodle Dandy -- Good morning, sunshine -- The BAG -- II (1933-1934) -- Fragment -- Chancellor Hitler -- Two Nazi ministers -- A whisper, a nod -- The people's radio -- The Reichstag fire -- An act of sabotage -- Mildred's recruits -- Tumbling like dominoes -- Torched -- Dietrich does battle with the Aryan clause -- Arvid burns his own book -- III (1938-1939). American in Berlin -- Don't dawdle -- IV (1933-1935) -- The proper care of cactus plants -- Fair bright transparent -- Two kinds of parties -- Bugged -- Esthonia, and other imaginary women -- Arvid gets a job -- Thieves, forgers, liars, traitors -- Rudolf Ditzen, aka Hans Fallada -- The night of the long knives -- V (1939). A Molekül and other small things -- The Kansas Jack gang -- VI (1935-1937). Fragment -- A new strategy -- Bye-bye, Treaty of Versailles -- Tommy -- Monkey business -- Rindersteak Nazi -- An old pal from ARPLAN -- Spies among us -- Beheadings are back -- Ernst and Ernst -- Identity crisis -- VI (1937-1939). Homecoming -- Georgina's tremors, big and small -- Jane in love -- My little girl -- A circle within the circle -- A child, almost -- Stalin and the dwarf -- Boris's last letter -- Seeking allies -- VIII (1937-1940) -- Morgenthau's man -- Joy ride -- Lunch before kristallnacht -- Getting to be pretty good -- A fateful decision -- Air raid -- Louise Heath's diary -- Mamzelle and Mildred and mole -- IX (1940-1942). Fragment -- Foreign excellent trench coats -- Corsican drops a bombshell -- Libs and Mildred among the cups and spoons -- AGIS and other agitations -- Zoya Ivanovna Rybkina's eleven-page table -- Stalin's obscenity -- Hans Coppi's first message -- Anatoly Gurevich, aka Kent, aka Vincente Sieraa, aka Victor Sukolov -- Code red -- A single error -- Gollnow -- One pain among so many -- Oil in the Caucasus -- X (1942-1945). Fragment -- Arrest -- Gestapo album -- Knock-knock -- Falk does his best -- Wolfgang's seventh interrogation -- Dassiber -- The Red Orchestra is neither red nor particularly musical -- Anneliese and witch bones -- Hitler's bloodhound -- The first of many trials -- Mildred's cellmate -- The greatest bit of bad luck -- The armband she wore -- The Mannhardt guillotine -- All the frequent troubles of our days -- Stieve's list -- The final solution -- Gertrud -- XI (1942-1952). Harriette's rage -- Valkyrie -- Recruited -- By chance -- Arvid's letter -- XII (1946). Don goes back.
Publication Info:
New York : Little, Brown and Company, c2021.
Subject:
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.
Harnack-Fish, Mildred, 1902-1943
Rote Kapelle (Resistance group)
Fish, Mildred, 1902-1943
Fish, Mildred Harnack-, 1902-1943
Harnack, Mildred, 1902-1943
Fish-Harnack, Mildred, 1902-1943
Harnack, Mildred Fish-, 1902-1943
Red Orchestra (Resistance group)
German resistance movement
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Germany
World War, 1939-1945 -- Guerrillas
World War, 1939-1945 -- Resistance movements
Covert operations (Espionage)
Operations, Undercover (Espionage)
Spying
Undercover operations (Espionage)
Yankees
SAILS ISBN:
9780316561693