Tag: Traitor

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I’m back with a First Lines Friday, and it’s good to be back! When I shared my plans for this post last week, I didn’t set any theme or specific book. I wanted to keep this as open as possible, and I have a fabulous book for you in this First Lines Friday! 

Do you recognise the subject at all? 

 

12 January 1944 

ON A CRISP January morning in 1944, seven Gestapo officers, two of them detectives, pulled up outside a cottage in a small Alpine town in southern Bavaria. It was the middle of the week, a Wednesday, and it was wartime. A few years earlier, this would have been peak skiing season, the snows around Partenkirchen pristine and perfect. But this trip was strictly business. 

Led by the detectives, both of whom were women, the Gestapo did not wait for the door to be opened. Instead, they forced their way in and found their target right away.

 

 

The Traitor’s Circle – Jonathan Freedland 

Genre: Non-Fiction

Pages: 480

Audience: Adult

Publisher: John Murray

Publication Date: 11 Sept 2025

 

Goodreads – The Traitor’s Circle

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When the whole world is lying, someone must tell the truth.

Berlin, 1943. 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.

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.

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?

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?

 

My Thoughts…

I’m obsessed with WW2 books. From historical fiction to non-fiction, I love it all. It’s pretty much an auto-buy subject. 

I ended up with a copy of this book for an unusual reason. I’d bought it as a gift for my sister’s fiancé Chris. He’s a big reader and we overlap on a lot of books we enjoy. It was a god choice for him; the only problem was that he already owned it! 

I made good and gave him money to buy something else instead and kept The Traitor’s Circle myself. No point getting a refund – after I bought it for Chris I’d added it to my TBR anyway 😅

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