As new condition saddle boards with a black spine and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated and photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Rebecca Donner; Author Dedication; Author's Note; Preliminary Page Main Character Historical ""Fragment""; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index and About the Author. Illustrated throughout the volume with black-and-white photographs plus a section of black-and-white photographic plates. The lower left jacket edge has a light one inch crease (see photographs). ""A beautifully rich portrait of a very brave woman. While never less than scrupulously researched, this biography explodes the genre of 'biography': experimental but achieved, Donner's story reads with the speed of a thriller, the depth of a novel, and the urgency of an essay, like some deeply compelling blend of Alan Furst and W.G. Sebald."" - James Wood, author. ""A stunning literary achievement. Donner forges a new kind of biography -- almost novelistic in style and tone, this scholarly work resurrects the courageous life of Mildred Harnack. A relentless sleuth in the archives, Donner has written a page-turner story of espionage, love, and betrayal."" - Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning author. ""How can it happen that a constitution, a free press, and a democracy are demolished -- all within six months? This powerfully written story of Mildred Harnack, resistance fighter against Hitler, tells step by step the way the German republic fell to the Nazis. Read Frequent Troubles of Our Days, and be warned."" - Maxine Hong Kingston, National Book Critics Circle Award and National Book Award-winning author. "".Donner's portrait of the cruelly oppressive system against which Harnack and her circle fought can serve to remind us of what can happen when, amid economic insecurity and anguish over dislocating sociocultural change, a highly civilized nation embraces demagoguery over democracy."" - David Clay Large, author. ""Born and raised in Milwaukee, 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 in her apartment -- a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. Her co-conspirators circulated throughout Berlin under the cover of night, slipping the leaflets into mailboxes, public restrooms, phone booths. 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, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison...
