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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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Brooks Memorial Library - Biography - 1st Floor | B HARNACK-FISH DON | On Shelf |
Deborah Rawson Memorial Library - Biography | B HARNACK | On Shelf |
Fletcher Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Main Library | B Har | On Shelf |
Morristown Centennial - Nonfiction - Main Library | 940.5318 DONNER | On Shelf |
Norman Williams Public Library - Biography - 1st Floor | BIO HARNACK, M. | On Shelf |
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LC Subjects
Americans -- Germany -- Biography.
Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography.
Biographies.
Espionage -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.
Executions and executioners -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Harnack-Fish, Mildred, -- 1902-1943.
Rote Kapelle (Resistance group)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Germany -- Berlin.
Anti-Nazi movement -- Germany -- Berlin -- Biography.
Biographies.
Espionage -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.
Executions and executioners -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Harnack-Fish, Mildred, -- 1902-1943.
Rote Kapelle (Resistance group)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Germany -- Berlin.
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Physical Desc
xiv, 560 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-544) and index.
Description
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.
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Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings with a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court she was sentenced to six years at a prison camp, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16, 1943, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. Harnack's great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on archival research in Germany, Russia, England, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to reconstruct the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history. --,Adapted from dust jacket
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Donner, R. (2021). All the frequent troubles of our days: the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler (First edition.). Little, Brown and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Donner, Rebecca. 2021. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman At the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler. Little, Brown and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Donner, Rebecca. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman At the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Donner, Rebecca. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman At the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler First edition., Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
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