Nazis

In 1929 and again in 1930 she was a member of the British Delegation to the League of Nations Assembly in Geneva (one of two women delegates sent by Britain), where her most exciting assignment...

ER 's committee raised three hundred thousand pounds to fund the children's transport. Having begun with Spanish refugees, she became over the next few years deeply involved in the cause of refugees from Czecholovakia...

She had written it from a sickbed and it had appeared in New York daily papers immediately after the fall of Paris to the Nazis . It now carried her statement, at her publisher's suggestion...

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.

ID published Winter's Tales, whose genesis in the frozen time of her despair during the Nazi occupation of Denmark is remembered in its title.

She had volunteered her journalistic services, as England and France declared war on Germany, to the editor of Politiken, which was published in Copenhagen. He commissioned her for several articles from each...

CM was in Berlin when fire was set to the Reichstag or parliament on 27 February 1933. This caused political panic and gains for the young Adolf Hitler . It was understood that the Nazis

This is the story of Thérèse and Léonie (cousins, or sisters, or twins, whose relationship is differently described as the story proceeds and their fathers are differently identified), as well as a story of life...

The House on the Wall, about a woman who is hanged for hiding two prisoners of the Nazis , takes place in Rachau, Austria, under Gestapo rule. ML features voodoo in Chi-Chi...

In the first of these, RA reverted to an early practice of writing about recent, and threatening, international politics. Waters' Meet opens with Philippa Langford, nearly forty, good-naturedly escorting (as stand-in for a glamorous and...

A child wrote to AU (about Hare Joins the Home Guard), Goebbels won't let the Nazis come now because Hare will stop them.

This text delivered a final blow to SJ 's long and close friendship with Vera Brittain (who had dedicated her political England's Hour to Jameson only that February). Not only did Brittain remain a staunch...

The one-hundredth anniversary of SB 's birth, though marked with book publications, a tribute DVD series, and a three-day international symposium, was a controversial occasion. Sharp criticism in the French press centred mostly the...

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 ...

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...