Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra

by Shareen Blair Brysac

Book Overview

This gripping and heartbreaking narrative is the first full account of an American woman who gave her life in the struggle against the Nazi regime. As members of a key resistance group, Mildred Harnack and her husband, Arvid, assisted in the escape of German Jews and political dissidents, and for years provided vital economic and military intelligence to both Washington and Moscow. But in 1942, following a Soviet blunder, the Gestapo arrested, tortured,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195152409
• ISBN13: 9780195152401
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 516 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"