{"product_id":"traitors-circle","title":"Traitors Circle","description":"\u003cp\u003e''An \u003cb\u003eastonishing\u003c\/b\u003e true story of courage, love and betrayal, told with the verve of a thriller. Freedland is \u003cb\u003ea master\u003c\/b\u003e''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMICK HERRON\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''This \u003cb\u003eremarkable\u003c\/b\u003e 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''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eANDREW ROBERTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003ci\u003eThe Traitors Circle\u003c\/i\u003e rivals Freedland''s \u003cb\u003esuperb\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Escape Artist\u003c\/i\u003e. Totally \u003cb\u003egripping and timely\u003c\/b\u003e''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJONATHAN DIMBLEBY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''\u003cb\u003eHaunting \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003eheart-poundingly suspenseful\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Freedland''s powerful story-telling has intense resonance in today''s darkening world''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSINCLAIR MCKAY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''As tense as a thriller\u003c\/b\u003e yet perceptive, thoughtful and thoroughly researched''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKATJA HOYER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen the whole world is lying, someone must tell the truth.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBerlin, 1943. \u003c\/b\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUndone 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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57399099916670,"sku":"NW9781399813679","price":19.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781399813679.jpg?v=1778621825","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/traitors-circle","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}