FROM THE EDITOR

n fiction, the trope of the unreliable narrator has been used to great effect in recent works is a prime example. But what if an unreliable narrator is behind a work of nonfiction? That’s what Rebecca Donner found when she began researching the life of a distant relative, Mildred Harnack—an American resistance leader in Germany executed on Hitler’s direct order. For years Mildred’s story was colored by former Nazis and by the Cold War era; now Donner’s deep research and access to unique documents has revealed a much more complicated and nuanced story. She tells it brilliantly beginning on page 30—a “gone girl” tale of dedication and commitment. I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I do.