A fascinating study of European refugees to Britain in the 1930s. This lively book presents an array of colourful portraits of the refugees who escaped Nazism and made a lasting mark on the intellectual and cultural life of Britain. These "Hitler emigres" helped create the Glyndebourne and Edinburgh festivals, the film "The Red Shoes," the magazine "Picture Post," the art publishers Phaidon and Thames & Hudson, the Amadeus Quartet, and the architecture of the Penguin Pool at London Zoo. They included artists, architects, ...
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A fascinating study of European refugees to Britain in the 1930s. This lively book presents an array of colourful portraits of the refugees who escaped Nazism and made a lasting mark on the intellectual and cultural life of Britain. These "Hitler emigres" helped create the Glyndebourne and Edinburgh festivals, the film "The Red Shoes," the magazine "Picture Post," the art publishers Phaidon and Thames & Hudson, the Amadeus Quartet, and the architecture of the Penguin Pool at London Zoo. They included artists, architects, musicians, film-makers, historians, philosophers, psychologists, scientists, and broadcasters. Far from eliminating the cosmopolitan culture he abhorred, Hitler was instrumental in spreading it throughout the world.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. First edition, UK hardback, 2002 Chatto & Windus. The book is in fine condition with slight tanning to the page edges, the dustjacket is in fine condition. Illustrated.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Book N.B. Very slight fading to bottom edge of boards. Top edge of D/J a little creased. 466pp.
