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Jonathan Freedland's narrative history follows a circle of high-society anti-Nazi dissidents in Berlin who met, rescued Jews and plotted a postwar Germany while a betrayer sat at their table. The group includes two countesses, a diplomat, an intelligence officer, an ambassador's widow and a headmistress, and their decade of resistance ends in Gestapo pursuit. Freedland, author of The Escape Artist, writes it with the pacing of a thriller. It suits readers of narrative nonfiction and WWII espionage who want character-driven history over a broad campaign survey.
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Reviewers and readers praise the book as gripping narrative history that reads like a thriller, with vivid portraits of the resisters and a strong sense of moral stakes. Some note the large cast and the tight focus on one circle.
The Traitors Circle is a true story of resistance in Nazi Germany, written by Jonathan Freedland, author of The Escape Artist. It is set in Berlin in 1943, where a group of high-society anti-Nazi dissenters meet for a tea party one late summer afternoon. Sitting at the table is someone who is ready to betray them all to the Gestapo.
The circle is made up of unlikely rebels from the German elite: two countesses, a diplomat, an intelligence officer, an ambassador's widow and a pioneering head mistress. They share a loathing of the Nazis and a refusal to bow to Hitler. Their acts of resistance include meeting in the shadows, rescuing Jews and plotting for a future Germany free of the Führer's rule.
The book asks how a group that had defied Hitler for more than a decade fell into such a trap. It follows their fate after they were undone from within and pursued by one of the Reich's cruelest men. It also asks what kind of person risks everything to stand up to tyranny.
