# The Traitors Circle

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- Book: [The Traitors Circle](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-freedland/the-traitors-circle) ([The Traitors Circle.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-freedland/the-traitors-circle.md))
- Authors: [Jonathan Freedland](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-freedland)
- Publisher: john_murray
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-13-9981-370-9
- Published: 2025-09-11
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE ESCAPE ARTIST A THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Magnificent . . . Important and impressive' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Astonishing . . . Freedland is a master' MICK HERRON 'Remarkable . . . This is how the best history books will be written in the future' ANDREW ROBERTS 'Utterly gripping - and brilliantly told' DOMINIC SANDBROOK 'Excellent . . . Perfect reading for this moment' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'Utterly gripping, brilliantly researched and written' ANTHONY HOROWITZ 'Compelling' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES 'Thrilling, humane, and deeply moving . . . Not to be missed' DAVID McCLOSKEY 'Totally gripping and timely' JONATHAN DIMBLEBY 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?