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

She was equally put off by Mildred’s literary bent, which struck Greta as irritatingly sentimental. Sometimes, out of the blue, Mildred quoted Homer or Shakespeare, in a voice so soft it seemed as if she were speaking to herself. No matter. Loud or soft, poetry-reciting meant one thing. “To me,” Greta wrote, “it was deadly.”