The Traitors Circle

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES. BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ESCAPE ARTIST. 'Magnificent. Important and impressive' DAILY TELEGRAPH. 'Astonishing. Freedland is a master. 'MICK HERRON. 'R. emarkable. This is how the best history books will be written in the future'ANDREW ROBERTS. 'Excellent. Perfect reading for this moment. 'ANNE APPLEBAUM. 'Utterly gripping. , brilliantly researched and written'ANTHONY HOROWITZ. 'Compelling. 'MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES. '. Thrilling, humane, and deeply moving. Not to be missed. 'DAVID McCLOSKEY. 'Totally gripping. and timely'JONATHAN DIMBLEBY. When the whole world is lying, someone must tell the truth. Berlin, 1943. A group of high-society anti-Nazi dissenters meet for a tea party one late summer afternoon. They do not know that, sitting around the table, is someone poised to betray them all to the Gestapo - revealing their secret to the Nazis' most ruthless detective. They form a circle of unlikely rebels, drawn from the German elite: two countesses, a diplomat, an intelligence officer, an ambassador's widow and a pioneering headmistress. Meeting in the shadows, rescuing Jews or plotting for a future Germany freed from the Führer's rule, what unites them is a shared loathing of the Nazis, a refusal to bow to Hitler and the courage to perform perilous acts of resistance. Or so they believe. How did a group of brave, principled rebels, who had successfully defied Adolf Hitler for more than a decade, come to fall into such a lethal trap. And who betrayed them. Undone from within and pursued to near-destruction by one of the Reich's cruellest men, they showed a heroism that raises a question with new urgency for our time: what kind of person does it take to risk everything and stand up to tyranny.