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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 / Rebecca Donner

Rebecca Donner

New York: Little, Brown and Company
to be released in Juni 2025

First edition

xiv, 560 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations

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 Sierra, aka Victor Sukolov -- Code red -- A single error -- Gollnow -- One pain among so many -- Oil in the Caucasus -- X (1942-1945). Fragment -- Arrest -- The Gestapo album -- Knock-knock -- Falk does his best -- Wolfgang's seventh interrogation -- Kassiber -- The Red Orchestra is neither all 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.

978-0-316-56169-3

Englisch

USA

Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-544) and index

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