Forum Books Presents Jonathan Freedland

FORUM Books is delighted to welcome award wining writer and columnist Jonathan Freedland to Corbridge to celebrate the publication of his latest work of non-fiction The Traitors Circle.

Jonathan will be in conversation with Bill Griffiths, Head of Programmes and Collections at North East Museums.The Traitors Circle tells the true, but scarcely known story of a group of secret rebels against Hitler.

Drawn from Berlin high society, they include senior army officers, top government officials, two countesses, an ambassador's widow, a young heiress and a former model all of them meeting in the shadows, whether hiding and rescuing Jews or plotting for a Germany freed from Nazi rule.

One day in September 1943 they gather for a tea party unaware that one among them will betray the rest to the Gestapo.

Pursued to near destruction by a cruel, calculating detective a man with the blood of thousands on his hands - theirs is a story of rare heroism, sacrifice and inspiring endurance in the face of the most brutal regime in history.All tickets include a welcome drink.