A Different Kind of Courage
Gretel Wachtel and Claudia Strachan Audio Book

'A Different Kind of Courage' is the spellbinding account of a young woman who personally witnessed Hitler’s racist spite at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and endured the shock of the disappearance of her best friend and her family during Kristallnacht, the night of atrocities against the Jews. She allied herself to the German resistance fighters, passing on secrets learnt from her work on the Enigma decoding machines, and she received all the conflicting messages coming in on the day of the attempted assassination of Hitler in 1944 by Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators, many of whom she knew personally.

Destined to be a classic in the tradition of 'The Diary of Anne Frank', 'A Different Kind of Courage' is a story of indomitable spirit and determination that will inspire and enthral.

Gretel Wachtel was born in Germany 1915 and was 24 years old when the Second World War broke out. She moved to England in 1945, where she remained until her death in 2005. Claudia Strachan was born in Germany and moved to England in 1993. After meeting Gretel, who shared with her stories about her time in Hamburg during the Second World War, she spent the next nine years researching the historical background of Gretel’s story.