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

Sometime later, the granddaughter of Philipp Friedrich Alexander, prince of Eulenburg and Hertefeld and count of Sandels, sits down in her prison cell to compose a letter to her mother. “I,” Libertas writes, “out of selfishness, have betrayed friends.”