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

Kopkow convinces his British captors that he can deliver to them valuable information about Soviet espionage, including “Russian plots against British interests.” MI6 agents fake Kopkow’s death—hypoxia due to a bad case of pneumonia—and give the Nazi a new identity as the manager of a textile factory, christening him “Peter Cordes.”