All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days

<p><b>SELECTED AS A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK</b><br><br>Born and raised in America Mildred Harnack was twenty-six and living in Germany when 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.<br><br>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.</p>