We're continuing our theme of badass women for March. Last December, we hosted an author talk over Zoom with Rebecca Donner about her latest book, All The Frequent Troubles of Our Days, and we were thankfully able to record it to share with more of you here!

Rebecca is the great-grand-niece of Mildred Harnack, someone you sadly likely haven't heard about. From Rebecca's website: "Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. As early as 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment—a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin...Historians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now."

Rebecca talks us through some of the in-depth research she had to do for the book, how she learned about her great-grand-aunt, and awes us with the perseverance of Mildred during such horrifying times (that eerily parallel our times now).

SHOW NOTES:

Tech note: This is a recording of a zoom conversation where we had some minor technical issues. Rebecca's audio unfortunately does dip in and out and times, but thankfully most of her audio came out just fine. We apologise for any listening hindrance this may cause at times.

Rebecca's website: https://www.rebeccadonner.com/all-the-frequent-troubles-of-our-days

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