The Traitors Circle

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER<p></p>FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ESCAPE ARTIST<p></p><p></p><p></p>'Magnificent . . . Important and impressive' <p></p>DAILY TELEGRAPH<p></p><p></p>'Astonishing . . . Freedland is a master'<p></p>MICK HERRON<p></p><p></p>'Remarkable . . . This is how the best history books will be written in the future'<p></p>ANDREW ROBERTS<p></p><p></p>'Excellent . . . Perfect reading for this moment'<p></p>ANNE APPLEBAUM<p></p><p></p>'Utterly gripping, brilliantly researched and written'<p></p>ANTHONY HOROWITZ<p></p><p></p>'Compelling'<p></p>MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES<p></p><p></p>'Thrilling, humane, and deeply moving . . . Not to be missed'<p></p>DAVID McCLOSKEY<p></p><p></p>'Totally gripping and timely'<p></p>JONATHAN DIMBLEBY<p></p><p></p>When the whole world is lying, someone must tell the truth.<p></p><p></p>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.<p></p><p></p>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 Fuhrer'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.<p></p><p></p>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?<p></p><p></p>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?