Nazis

This final novel, remarkable as an early treatment of the impact of radiation on human life and of the rise of Nazism in Germany, differs from MC 's earlier ones in being pessimistic about...

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography has called Bryher's novels distinctive historical imaginings, cinematic in construction, intense but passionless,and noted that their narrative perspective is often that of a young man.Alicia Ostriker ...

AB published her eighth novel, Latecomers, a story of English life whose true theme is the central characters' early experience as child refugees from the Nazis .

VB 's political commitments involved a great deal of travel, beginning with journeys all around England as a League of Nations Union lecturer. She was in Cologne in October 1924 observing the hungry, hopeless Germans...

VB 's literary output during and immediately after World War II was almost entirely taken up with statements of her pacifist convictions both her in non-fictional writing and lecturing and her last two novels. The...

PB published in Britain and North America The Mortal Storm, a blockbuster novel which depicts a German woman's resistance to anti-semitism in NaziGermany.

The film version of PB 's The Mortal Storm, one of Hollywood's first anti-Nazi films, opened in the United States, where it served as an important and influential piece of British war propaganda.

PB 's novel Within the Cup, which warns against England dissociating itself from the Nazi atrocities in Europe, was published by Faber and Faber .

PB was a prolific novelist who published over fifty works in approximately sixty years. Her two best-known works, Private Worlds and The Mortal Storm, were made into popular American films. In addition to novels,...

In this book, set largely in an English village, PB rearticulates her concerns about the social situation of Jews in Europe and Britain. The novel centres on an English couple who rescue a German-Jewish...

This book, set in 1938 in Austria, condemns both NaziGermany and aggressive, self-destructive aspects of Austrian and German culture. The novel developed out of PB 's experiences at Kitzbühel in Germany...

Like another open letter by PB , I Accuse (not published until the end of this year), this one is highly critical of Anschluss (the Nazi takeover of Austria), for which she holds Britain partly responsible.

The book describes the effects of bombing: effects on the cities of London and Liverpool, the Army , Navy , and Air Force , the Women's Auxiliary Services , and the lives of ordinary...

TB 's prefatory letter has a somewhat heavy air of jokiness: abroad is perfectly grand and kind of large. If there is a riot or a coup d'état at any place I'm staying in I...

Sybille had a half-sister ten years older than herself, Maximiliana Henrietta, who was known as Jacko. She married first a middle-aged man, then a charming, disastrous young one who became in time a fairly high-placed...