SELECTED AS A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK Born and raised in America Mildred Harnack was
twenty-six and living in Germany where she witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. She
began holding secret meetings in her apartment forming a small band of political activists set
on helping Jews escape denouncing Hitler and calling for revolution. When the Second World War
began she became a spy couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. In this astonishing
work of non-fiction Harnack's great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on extensive archival
research fusing elements of biography political thriller and scholarly detective story to
tell a powerful epic tale of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history.
