History & Biography Book Group

Program Type:

Book Club

Age Group:

Adults
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Program Description

Event Details

Join us to discuss "All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler" by Rebecca Donner. Historians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the German resistance leadership, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now.

“Harnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany, Russia, England, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography, real-life political thriller, and scholarly detective story, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, survivors’ testimony, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful, epic story, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history” (amazon.com).

Copies of the book are limited. Registration is required. Please call, email, or inquire at your branch for more information.

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