The Traitors Circle

<p>''An <b>astonishing</b> true story of courage, love and betrayal, told with the verve of a thriller. Freedland is <b>a master</b>''<br><b>MICK HERRON</b><br><br>''This <b>remarkable</b> book reads like a novel . . . The narrative style is gripping; the morality searing. This is how the best history books will be written in the future''<br><b>ANDREW ROBERTS</b><br><br>''<i>The Traitors Circle</i> rivals Freedland''s <b>superb</b> <i>The Escape Artist</i>. Totally <b>gripping and timely</b>''<br><b>JONATHAN DIMBLEBY</b><br><br>''<b>Haunting </b>and <b>heart-poundingly suspenseful</b> . . . Freedland''s powerful story-telling has intense resonance in today''s darkening world''<br><b>SINCLAIR MCKAY</b><br><br><b>''As tense as a thriller</b> yet perceptive, thoughtful and thoroughly researched''<br><b>KATJA HOYER</b><br><b><br>When the whole world is lying, someone must tell the truth.</b><br><br><b>Berlin, 1943. </b>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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?<br><br>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?</p>