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