{"product_id":"resisting-hitler-mildred-harnack-and-the-red-orchestra-9780195132694","title":"Resisting Hitler: Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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  and tried some four score members of the Harnacks group  which the Nazis dubbed the Red Orchestra. Mildred Fish-Harnack was guillotined in Berlin on February 16  1943  on the personal instruction of Adolf Hitler--she was the only American woman to be executed as an underground conspirator during World War II. Yet as the war ended and the Cold War began  her courage  idealism  and self-sacrifice went largely unacknowledged in America and the democratic West  and were distorted and sanitized in the Communist East. Only now  with the opening of long-sealed archives from Germany  the KGB  the CIA  and the FBI  can the full story be told. In this superbly told life of an unjustly forgotten woman  Shareen Blair Brysac depicts the human side of a controversial resistance group that for too long has been portrayed as merely a Soviet espionage network.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789540057141,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195132696","price":21.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195132694.jpg?v=1784693311","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/resisting-hitler-mildred-harnack-and-the-red-orchestra-9780195132694","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}