Jonathan Freedland: The Traitors Circle

Award-winning author, journalist, and host of both BBC Radio 4’s The Long View series and the Guardian’s Politics Weekly America podcast, Jonathan Freedland has won the Orwell Prize for Journalism and the Somerset Maugham Award for Non-Fiction.

The Traitors Circle tells the true but scarcely known story of a group of secret rebels against Hitler. Drawn from Berlin high society, they include senior army officers, top government officials, two countesses, an ambassador’s widow, a young heiress and a former model – all of them meeting in the shadows, whether hiding and rescuing Jews or plotting for a Germany freed from Nazi rule. One day in September 1943 they gather for a tea party – unaware that one among them will betray the rest to the Gestapo. Pursued to near destruction by a cruel, calculating detective, theirs is a story of rare heroism, sacrifice and inspiring endurance.

An insightful and authoritative voice on modern history, Jonathan sheds light on one of the most dramatic episodes of WWII, telling a story with deep moral resonance for our own time in his book, The Traitors Circle, a true story of rebellion against the Nazis.

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