Nazis

According to her later story (which took two hours to tell and made her weep in the telling), she fled from Paris when the Nazis overran France, in a small car with an aristocratic friend...

This novel is about moral responsibility for those whom Christianity calls our neighbour, and about the possibility that violence can in certain circumstances be morally acceptable. Each of its two central characters, Jean Blomart and...

RF published when Mussolini had conquered and exiled Haile Selassie , but before Queen Wilhelmina had fled from home before the invading Nazis , or Russia had switched sides and entered the war against Germany...

This novel seems like a prophecy of the Nazi rise: Hitler had already led the failed Beer Hall Putsch, and had written Mein Kampf during the resultant prison sentence. The protagonist, Friederich (Fritz) Storm...

Originally entitled The Birthday Party, this novel focuses on Fanny Skeffington, an aging socialite forced to come to terms with her deteriorating looks. The novel ends with Fanny's reconciliation with her estranged husband, a...

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...

Another play about the theatre that she wrote, The Managing Director, brought her an overall bad experience. Its leading character was based on Fritzi Massary , an Austrian operetta diva who had fled from...

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...

Cecily Mackworth made her name with her book I Came Out of France, a vivid first-personaccount of the fall of France to the Nazis and its immediate effects on the civilian population.

Between 1931 and 1939, CH published a series of travel books, which includes works on France, 1933, Russia, 1934, Austria, 1935, Ireland, 1936, Scotland, 1937, England, 1938, and Sweden...

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 .

CM 's slim volume Czechoslovakia Fights Back was published, one of a series entitled Europe under the Nazis, covering countries from Norway to Yugoslavia.

During the years that followed, her writing was sporadic and without hope of reaching print. In 1933 she was translatingShakespeare 's Macbeth, bearing in mind how relevant to her present life was its...

About 1933, after the rejection of the first novel, Klaus Mann generously accepted SB 's offer of a review essay on Aldous Huxley 's recent Beyond the Mexique Bay for his new review Die Sammlung...

MAH embarked on the arduous practice of lecture tours, the great resource of the intellectual unemployed, from New York in 1923. She pursued it on many later tours. In 1938 she was supposed...