{"title":"Rebecca Donner","description":"\u003cp\u003eRebecca Donner’s works delve into the intricate intersections of history and personal narrative, offering readers profound insights into the lives shaped by tumultuous times. With a focus on meticulously researched stories, her writing illuminates lesser-known events and figures in history, inviting reflection on resilience and moral complexity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect richly detailed storytelling that blends biography and historical context, exploring themes of courage, identity, and the enduring impact of the past. Her books stand as compelling meditations on history’s frequent troubles and the human spirit’s response to them.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"all-the-frequent-troubles-of-our-days-by-rebecca-donner-9781786892218","title":"All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six and living in Germany where she witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. She began holding secret meetings in her apartment, forming a small band of political activists set on helping Jews escape, denouncing Hitler and calling for revolution. When the Second World War began, she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this astonishing work of non-fiction, Harnack's great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on extensive archival research, fusing elements of biography, political thriller and scholarly detective story to tell a powerful, epic tale of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA beautifully rich portrait of a very brave woman ... 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. Sebald\u003c\/em\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eJAMES WOOD\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46520227823852,"sku":"9781786892218","price":34.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5451223482824.jpg?v=1748985605"},{"product_id":"all-the-frequent-troubles-of-our-days-by-rebecca-donner-9781786892195","title":"All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD programme in Berlin and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment—a small band of political activists that grew into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and wrote leaflets denouncing Hitler's regime. On the outbreak of the Second World War, she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court, she was sentenced to six years at a concentration camp, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On 16 February 1943, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFusing elements of biography, political thriller, and scholarly detective story, Harnack's great-great-niece \u003cem\u003eRebecca Donner\u003c\/em\u003e brilliantly interweaves family archives, original research, exclusive interviews with survivors, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful, enthralling story. \u003cem\u003eAll the Frequent Troubles of Our Days\u003c\/em\u003e reconstructs the moral courage and previously untold story of an enigmatic woman nearly erased by history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47485782786284,"sku":"9781786892195","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781786892195-all-the-frequent-troubles-of-our-days.jpg?v=1775715401"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/rebecca-donner.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}