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

With few exceptions, the men who are running the government are of a mentality that you and I cannot understand. Some of them are psychopathic cases and would ordinarily be receiving treatment somewhere.

By the winter of 1923, forty-two billion marks was worth one American cent. The collapse was complete.

The memo originates from Pavel Fitin’s office. The young director of NKVD foreign intelligence has already shown himself to be far less experienced than many of his comrades who were murdered in Stalin’s bloody purges. A number of the agents he runs—agents like Korotkov—have shown lapses in tradecraft, but the memo he sends Gurevich on August 26, 1941, is a mistake so massive that it threatens to eclipse all the others. Indeed, Fitin’s memo will go down in history as one of the most significant espionage blunders of the Second World War.

In all the frequent troubles of our days A God gave compensation—more his praise In looking sky- and heavenward as duty In sunshine and in virtue and in beauty.