All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner (2021) | Book Review
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days by Rebecca Donner Genres: Biography, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2021 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon, Instagram All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days describes the life and death of Mildred Harnack. Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a Ph.D. program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. Historians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now. All The Frequent Troubles Of Our Days by Rebecca Donner When…
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell (2019) | Book Review
A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell Genres: Biography, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2019 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Twitter, Goodreads, Amazon American spy: In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: “She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her.” The target in their sights was Virginia Hall, a Baltimore socialite who talked her way into Special Operations Executive, the spy organization dubbed Winston Churchill’s “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” She became the first Allied woman deployed behind enemy lines and–despite her prosthetic leg–helped to light the flame of the French Resistance, revolutionizing secret warfare as we…
Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II by Robert Matzen | Book Review
Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II by Robert Matzen Genres: Biography, History, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2019 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads Dutch Girl: Several biographies have chronicled her stardom, but none has covered Audrey Hepburn’s intense experiences through five years of Nazi occupation in the Netherlands. Audrey Hepburn’s war included participation in the Dutch Resistance, working as a doctor’s assistant during the “Bridge Too Far” battle of Arnhem, the brutal execution of her uncle, and the ordeal of the Hunger Winter of 1944. Audrey’s own reminiscences, new interviews with people who knew her in the war, wartime diaries, and…
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee: From Scout to Go Set a Watchman by Charles J. Shields | Book Review
Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee: From Scout to Go Set a Watchman by Charles J. Shields Genres: Biography, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: Originally published 2006, this edition 2016 Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Blog, Facebook, Goodreads, Amazon To Kill a Mockingbird—the twentieth century’s most widely read American novel—has sold thirty million copies and still sells a million yearly. In this in-depth biography, first published in 2006, Charles J. Shields brings to life the woman who gave us two of American literature’s most unforgettable characters, Atticus Finch and his daughter, Scout. Years after its initial publication—with revisions throughout the book and a new epilogue—Shields finishes the story of Harper Lee’s…
February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn by Sherill Tippins | Book Review
February House: The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn by Sherill Tippins Genres: Biography, Non-Fiction Original Publication Date: 2005 Source: I purchased this book Goodreads Find the Author: Website, Twitter, Goodreads, Amazon February House is the uncovered story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers — and the country’s best-known burlesque performer — in a house at 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn during 1940 and 1941. It was a fevered yearlong party fueled by the appetites of youth and by the shared sense of urgency to take…
