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

On November 20, 1941, Mildred receives her PhD. She has been a graduate student in Germany for over a decade, writing her dissertation in fits and starts, dizzied by all that swirls around her. The title of her dissertation is “The Development of Contemporary American Literature in Some of the Main Exponents of the Novel and Short Story.”