“Donner quotes passages from her sources at length, letting the reader dwell on facts rather than galloping through them. A nonfiction narrative with the pace of a political thriller, it’s imbued with suspense and dread.” – The Wall Street Journal This is a superb, sure-footed work of historical detection conceived with a powerful intelligence.” – The Sunday Times (UK) “It’s against a tense backdrop of political terror that we recognise Mildred’s extraordinary bravery. “A tour de force of investigation… The story unfolds in fragments… but as the pieces cohere, the couple’s story becomes gripping… The abiding impression is of virtuous, extraordinarily brave people caught up in tragic horror.”–The Economist It is also a story of code names and dead drops, a real-life thriller with a cruel ending - not to mention an account of Hitler’s ascent from attention-seeking buffoon to genocidal Führer….Donner’s decision to narrate events in the present tense an effective device for conveying what it felt like in real time to experience the tightening vise of the Nazi regime.” – Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times
extraordinarily intimate book… Donner is Harnack’s great-great-niece, so this is a family history too. “ Astonishing…wilder and more expansive than a standard-issue biography…. " Donner's story reads with the speed of a thriller, the depth of a novel, and the urgency of an essay, like some deeply compelling blend of Alan Furst and W.G.
“A stunning literary achievement.” – KAI BIRD, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
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