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All the frequent troubles of our days : the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler / Rebecca Donner.
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- ISBN: 9780316561693
- Physical Description: xi, 560 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days : The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days : The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Author's Note | p. xiii | |
| Fragment | p. 3 | |
| Introduction | p. 5 | |
| The Boy with the Blue Knapsack (1939) | p. 8 | |
| Mildred | ||
| I | (1902-1933) | |
| We Must Change This Situation as Soon, as Possible | p. 15 | |
| Yankee Doodle Dandy | p. 25 | |
| Good Morning, Sunshine | p. 29 | |
| The BAG | p. 40 | |
| II | (1933-1934) | |
| Fragment | p. 51 | |
| Chancellor Hitler | p. 52 | |
| Two Nazi Ministers | p. 58 | |
| A Whisper, a Nod | p. 63 | |
| The People's Radio | p. 70 | |
| The Reichstag Fire | p. 74 | |
| An Act of Sabotage | p. 81 | |
| Mildred's Recruits | p. 86 | |
| Tumbling Like Dominoes | p. 90 | |
| Torched | p. 97 | |
| Dietrich Does Battle with the Aryan Claus | p. 101 | |
| Arvid Burns His Own Book | p. 105 | |
| The Boy | ||
| III | (1938-1939) | |
| American in Berlin | p. 111 | |
| Don't Dawdle | p. 121 | |
| Mildred | ||
| IV | (1933-1935) | |
| The Proper Care of Cactus Plants | p. 127 | |
| Fair Bright Transparent | p. 130 | |
| Two Kinds of Parties | p. 136 | |
| Bugged | p. 138 | |
| Esthonia, and Other Imaginary Women | p. 141 | |
| Arvid Gets a Job | p. 144 | |
| Thieves, Forgers, Liars, Traitors | p. 148 | |
| Rudolf Ditzen, aka Hans Fallada | p. 150 | |
| The Night of the Long Knives | p. 155 | |
| The Boy | ||
| V | (1939) | |
| A Molekül and Other Small Things | p. 163 | |
| The Kansas Jack Gang | p. 167 | |
| Mildred | ||
| VI | (1935-1937) | |
| Fragment | p. 171 | |
| A New Strategy | p. 172 | |
| Bye-Bye, Treaty of Versailles | p. 176 | |
| Tommy | p. 180 | |
| Monkey Business | p. 189 | |
| Rindersteak Nazi | p. 194 | |
| An Old Pal from ARPLAN | p. 198 | |
| Spies Among Us | p. 203 | |
| Beheadings Are Back | p. 206 | |
| Widerstand | p. 210 | |
| Ernst and Ernst | p. 217 | |
| Identity Crisis | p. 224 | |
| VII | (1937-1939) | |
| Homecoming | p. 231 | |
| Georgina's Tremors, Big and Small | p. 236 | |
| Jane in Love | p. 241 | |
| My Little Girl | p. 247 | |
| A Circle Within the Circle | p. 250 | |
| A Child, Almost | p. 254 | |
| Stalin and the Dwarf | p. 260 | |
| Boris's Last Letter | p. 265 | |
| Seeking Allies | p. 268 | |
| The Boy | ||
| VIII | (1937-1940) | |
| Morgenthau's Man | p. 273 | |
| Joy Ride | p. 282 | |
| Lunch Before Kristallnacht | p. 287 | |
| Getting to Be Pretty Good | p. 292 | |
| A Fateful Decision | p. 298 | |
| Air Raid | p. 304 | |
| Louise Heath's Diary | p. 313 | |
| Mamzelle and Mildred and Mole | p. 317 | |
| Mildred | ||
| IX | (1940-1942) | |
| Fragment | p. 323 | |
| Foreign Excellent Trench Coats | p. 324 | |
| Corsican Drops a Bombshell | p. 326 | |
| Libs and Mildred Among the Cups and Spoons | p. 329 | |
| AGIS and Other Agitations | p. 332 | |
| Zoya Ivanovna Rybkina's Eleven-Page Table | p. 338 | |
| Stalin's Obscenity | p. 346 | |
| Hans Coppi's First Message | p. 349 | |
| Anatoly Gurevich, aka Kent, aka Vincente Sierra, aka Victor Sukolov | p. 352 | |
| Code Red | p. 357 | |
| A Single Error | p. 360 | |
| Gollnow | p. 363 | |
| One Pain Among So Many | p. 366 | |
| Oil in the Caucasus | p. 370 | |
| X | (1942-1945) | |
| Fragment | p. 375 | |
| Arrest | p. 376 | |
| The Gestapo Album | p. 382 | |
| Knock-Knock | p. 392 | |
| Falk Does His Best | p. 396 | |
| Wolfgang's Seventh Interrogation | p. 401 | |
| Kassiber | p. 403 | |
| The Red Orchestra Is Neither All Red nor Particularly Musical | p. 407 | |
| Anneliese and Witch Bones | p. 412 | |
| Hitler's Bloodhound | p. 418 | |
| The First of Many Trials | p. 421 | |
| Mildred's Cellmate | p. 424 | |
| The Greatest Bit of Bad Luck | p. 429 | |
| The Armband She Wore | p. 431 | |
| The Mannhardt Guillotine | p. 433 | |
| All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days | p. 436 | |
| Stieve's List | p. 439 | |
| The Final Solution | p. 443 | |
| Gertrud | p. 445 | |
| XI | (1942-1952) | |
| Harriette's Rage | p. 457 | |
| Valkyrie | p. 462 | |
| Recruited | p. 467 | |
| By Chance | p. 470 | |
| Arvid's Letter | p. 472 | |
| The Boy | ||
| XII | (1946) | |
| Don Goes Back | p. 477 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 483 | |
| Notes | p. 487 | |
| Bibliography | p. 537 | |
| Illustration Credits | p. 545 | |
| Index | p. 549 |
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