A moving novel that tells the story of 4 unknown heroes who risked their lives to alert the world to Hitler. From the author of }Stasiland{, which won the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize and sold 80,000 copies. With appeal to fans of }Suite Francaise{ and }Alone In Berlin{ When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers become hunted outlaws overnight. United in their resistance to the madness and tyranny of Nazism, they must flee the country. Dora, passionate and fearless, her lover, great playwright Ernst Toller, her younger cousin Ruth and Ruth's husband Hans find refuge in London.
