Adolf Hitler

Back in England from a Europe distraught and obsessed between Hitler and Mussolini , with Stalin waiting in the wings,PB was disturbed at finding in Londoneasy nonchalance about Hitler's anti-semitism.

AB was always alert to and outspoken about national and international attitudes. From a chance word spoken by a Swiss banker, she learned of Hitler 's original plan to invade Russia six weeks earlier than...

AB arrived in Hungary in 1940 to find that two of her novels had just been translated into Magyar, and the publishers had waited until she got there to provide window displays with photographs for...

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...

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...

Among its most fascinating contents is The Capture of Cerberus, an unpublished story dating from 1939, which includes barely disguised version of Adolf Hitler : a curious and disturbing relic, as a reviewer called it.

HC 's mother, Eva Cixous (born Klein), a midwife, was born in Germany but left in 1933 for Oran after Hitler 's rise to power. Her family was Austro-German Jewish, and many members died in...

CD edited and published The Nelson Touch, a selection of letters from a national hero; she noted parallels between the military state of Britain confronting Napoleon and confronting Hitler .

Here Mr Pennhallow represents Hitler , a figure of masculine oppression. He is a trafficker in prostitutes, whom he regards with disgust and hatred. The deepest sunk creature refuses to drink from the cup out...

In the postwar years GE seems also to have grown somewhat disillusioned with British politics in general. During the General Strike (which began on 3 May 1926) she wrote in her diary, I am convinced...

She was the elder of two children, born prematurely at seven months and not expected to live: a little bigger than the biggest rat you've ever seen, all head. She had a younger brother,...

This novel is an extraordinary tour de force in taking Lawrence's patterns of thought and speech to write a refutation, through a female narrator (his protagonist herself), of his sexual theories. EF traces forwards both...

RF left Russia by way of Finland, and later the same year she flew to Germany to interview Hitler . In the autumn, still in 1933, she was back again lecturing in the USA...

It was something of a coup for RF in June 1933 to interview Hitler , who had come to power on the crest of a new generation's resentment. He spoke to her of his...

RF had been patriotically outraged at the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935 (which was presented as saving the country from British imperialism). Visiting Germany in 1937, when she found most young...