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

Harro and Libertas Schulze-Boysen are here. Greta and Adam Kuckhoff are here. Hans and Hilde Coppi are here. So are Mildred’s BAG recruits Karl Behrens and Wilhelm Utech. All the links in the chain connecting the Circle, Gegner Kreis, Tat Kreis, and Rittmeister Kreis are here, including Rose Schlösinger, Elisabeth Schumacher, Cato Bontjes van Beek, Erika von Brockdorff, Oda Schottmüller, and Elfriede Paul. Some of the women Mildred has never met face-to-face; she knows them by their deeds alone—the one who hid a radio transmitter in her apartment, the one who was a courier, the one who enciphered intelligence reports, the one who held meetings in her clinic after hours, the one who made leaflets, the one who distributed them.