From bestselling author David Downing master of historical espionage comes a heartwrenching depiction of Germany in the days leading up to World War II and the difficult choices of one man of conviction. In April 1938 a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm Germany and lets a room from the widow who owns it. Fifty years later Walter Gersdorff the widows son who was eleven years old in the spring of 1938 discovers the carefully hidden diary the boarder had kept du