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22. After a break to read Louise Erdrich's latest book, The Sentence, I am getting back to WWII
Sun Jul 24, 2022, 04:53 PM
Jul 2022

with Rebecca Donner's All the Frequent Troubles of our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler." This is a very exciting and informative read--what was going on in the 30s and early 40s in Germany seems errily similar to what is going on in this country today.

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.

Historians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now.

Harnack’s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany, Russia, England, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction.


Many thanks for the weekly thread, hermetic. Glad to note that you are still chilling. Me, too.

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The Scholar snowybirdie Jul 2022 #1
That sounds like fun hermetic Jul 2022 #5
Sacred Bridge by Anne Hillerman-- Navajo Police mystery. Magoo48 Jul 2022 #2
Oh yay! hermetic Jul 2022 #6
Yup, it started off pretty good. I too love her and Tony's work. Magoo48 Jul 2022 #13
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger CurtEastPoint Jul 2022 #3
Hi Curt! Good to see you hermetic Jul 2022 #7
My first. Will need to read some other. Really like his style. CurtEastPoint Jul 2022 #15
Kool. I'll read it soon. Now waiting on his next Cork O. book. Out this summer soon, I hope. Magoo48 Jul 2022 #14
Violeta, by Isabel Allende Tanuki Jul 2022 #4
Oh, excellent hermetic Jul 2022 #8
"We Own the Sky" by Luke Allnutt bif Jul 2022 #9
Sounds really good hermetic Jul 2022 #10
Just finished a pair of Christopher Moore's books - Noir and Razzmatazz! Staph Jul 2022 #11
Aren't those fun? hermetic Jul 2022 #12
These sound like delicious mind candy! SheltieLover Jul 2022 #26
Odd but I'm listening to Black Sun Rising again TexLaProgressive Jul 2022 #16
Audio books can be funny that way hermetic Jul 2022 #17
Just finished "Empire of Lies" by Raymond Khoury Number9Dream Jul 2022 #18
That sounds quite intriguing hermetic Jul 2022 #20
I hope kittirs are ok! SheltieLover Jul 2022 #27
I finished The Seven with the last installment "1980" yellowdogintexas Jul 2022 #19
Stone Cribs sounds amazing... hermetic Jul 2022 #21
It's very good. The author really has a good feel for the times yellowdogintexas Jul 2022 #31
Well I found Volumes 1-4 of the Deschanel epic yellowdogintexas Jul 2022 #30
After a break to read Louise Erdrich's latest book, The Sentence, I am getting back to WWII japple Jul 2022 #22
Good to see you hermetic Jul 2022 #23
Just started "Hidden," by Fern Michaels SheltieLover Jul 2022 #24
Did you see last week's post? hermetic Jul 2022 #25
I don't think so! SheltieLover Jul 2022 #28
Got 1! SheltieLover Jul 2022 #29
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