The Traitors Circle is thrilling true story of courage, resistance, and ultimately betrayal in the Third Reich.
Written by internationally bestselling author and prize-winning journalist Jonathan Freedland, it promises to be a gripping account of extraordinary defiance under Nazi rule.
The Traitors Circle tells the true, but scarcely known, story of a group of secret rebels against Hitler. Drawn from Berlin high society, they include army officers, government officials, two countesses, an ambassador's widow and a former model - meeting in the shadows, whether hiding and rescuing Jews or plotting for a Germany freed from Nazi rule.
One day in September 1943 they gather for a tea party - unaware that one among them is about to betray them all to the Gestapo. But who is the betrayer of a circle themselves branded 'traitors' by the cruellest regime in history?
Jonathan Freedland, acclaimed author of The Escape Artist, sheds light on one of the most dramatic episodes of the second world war, telling a story of courage, resistance and ultimate betrayal that has deep moral resonance for our own time, and asks what kind of person it takes to risk everything and stand up to tyranny.
Jonathan is a Guardian columnist and former foreign correspondent. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's history series, The Long View and he is the author of 11 books. He has written nine thrillers under the name Sam Bourne, including The Righteous Men which was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller and has sold over 2 million copies worldwide.
He will be in conversation with Daniel Finkelstein, British journalist and opinion writer. A former executive editor of The Times, he continues to write for the paper. He has been Political Columnist of the Year four times and recently joined the board of Chelsea Football Club. He was appointed to the House of Lords in 2013. His family memoir, Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad, was a Sunday Times Bestseller.