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...Giles MacDonogh...
...Oxford years, Trott sowed the seeds for friends' future misunderstandings of his character. MacDonogh points out that because Trott became so much of "an honorary Englishman" in his years at Oxford, his friends had trouble understanding his return to Germany in 1933 to work against the Nazi regime...
...second half of the biography, which details Trott's movement into the resistance, provides a much more compelling picture than the first half of the book. MacDonogh's eye for detail, which obscures Trott's pre-war life, helps to illuminate the inner workings of the Kreisau resistance circle, which planned out a blueprint for post-war Germany...
...MacDonogh convincingly argues that the Kreisau plot against Hitler could have succeeded if the Allies had lent more support to the resistance. Instead, when approached through secret channels, both the English and American governments ignored Trott's pleas for help...
...MacDonogh deserves thanks for clarifying Trott's part in the resistance. Unfortunately, only the most stout of heart will be able to put up with MacDonogh's tortured prose long enough to understand the complex life of this German hero...