“[Donner] brings forensic and literary skills — along with access to family papers and a key witness — to a story at once deeply personal and broadly inspiring.”
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“Despite its ostensibly forbidding subject matter this is a thrilling and inspiring book...a treasure trove for lovers of biography, new writing and the history of the Third Reich.”
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“Donner — Harnack’s great-great niece — draws on notes, diaries, letters and declassified intelligence materials to offer this window into 1930s Germany and Harnack’s remarkable actions.”
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“This is a superb, sure-footed work of historical detection conceived with a powerful intelligence.”
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“Donner’s research is impeccable, and her fluid prose and vivid character sketches keep the pages turning as the story moves toward its inevitable, tragic conclusion.”
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“Donner’s meticulous research and novelist’s sensibility make for a riveting biography of a remarkable and brave woman; there’s also good insight into the German Resistance.”
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