'Accompanied by an expertly rendered plot, bold and empathetic characters, and prose that jumps off the page, this tale will particularly satisfy fans of historicals and those looking for stories about the redeeming grace of faith and hard work. But even among those she trusts most, there is no guarantee of safety-and when danger strikes, she must take an extraordinary gamble in her own personal struggle to survive. Natalya risks everything alongside her friends, hoping the power of words will encourage others to resist. She willingly enters the White Rose's circle, where every hushed conversation, every small act of dissent could mean imprisonment or death at the hands of an infuriated Gestapo. Natalya Petrovich, a student, knows who is behind the leaflets-a secret group called the White Rose, led by siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friends.Īs a volunteer nurse on the Russian front, Natalya witnessed the horrors of war first-hand. The leaflets are hidden in public places, or mailed to addresses selected at random from the phone book. Nonfiction account (in novelistic style) of the Swedish-American oilman Erik Erickson who, during World War II, worked for the Allies, gathering information about oil production by Nazi Germany, while seeming to be pro-German. In the summer of 1942, as war rages across Europe, a series of anonymous leaflets appears around the University of Munich, speaking out against escalating Nazi atrocities.

Drawing on the true story of the White Rose-the resistance movement of young Germans against the Nazi regime-The Traitor tells of one woman who offers her life in the ultimate battle against tyranny during one of history's darkest hours. Readers of The Alice Project and The Lost Girls of Paris will be enthralled by V.S. Fans of Reese Witherspoon's Book Club picks eager for their next moving historical novel-look no further

The traitor by vs alexander