The Traitors Circle: The Rebels Against the Nazis and the Spy Who Betrayed Them
Sep 2025 · Hachette UK
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'An astonishing true story of courage, love and betrayal, told with the verve of a thriller. Freedland is a master'
MICK HERRON
'This remarkable 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'
ANDREW ROBERTS
'The Traitors Circle rivals Freedland's superb The Escape Artist. Totally gripping and timely'
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY
'Haunting and heart-poundingly suspenseful . . . Freedland's powerful story-telling has intense resonance in today's darkening world'
SINCLAIR MCKAY
'As tense as a thriller yet perceptive, thoughtful and thoroughly researched'
KATJA HOYER
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?
MICK HERRON
'This remarkable 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'
ANDREW ROBERTS
'The Traitors Circle rivals Freedland's superb The Escape Artist. Totally gripping and timely'
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY
'Haunting and heart-poundingly suspenseful . . . Freedland's powerful story-telling has intense resonance in today's darkening world'
SINCLAIR MCKAY
'As tense as a thriller yet perceptive, thoughtful and thoroughly researched'
KATJA HOYER
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?
About the author
Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnist and former foreign correspondent. He has been named Columnist of the Year and Commentator of the Year and has won an Orwell Prize for Journalism. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series, The Long View, as well as two popular podcasts, Politics Weekly America and Unholy, the latter alongside the journalist Yonit Levi. This is his fourth work of non-fiction, the most recent of which is the award-winning The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World. He has written nine thrillers, eight of them under the name Sam Bourne, including The Righteous Men which was a Sunday Times number one bestseller and has sold over two million copies worldwide.
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