A tense and deeply moving novel that tells the story of four unknown heroes who risked their lives in the German resistance as they worked to alert the world to Hitler. Inspiring, tragic and based on real events, it also reveals that the UK policy of appeasement led to secret acts of complicity with the Nazis in London. Funder's previous book, "Stasiland", won the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize.
This book comes out at a time when there is a controversy over the publication of a multi-volume history of the Congress compiled at the behest of the party leadership to mark its 125th year of existence,