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The Hitler Emigrés is the story of those Central Europeans, many of them Jewish, who escaped the shadow of Nazism, found refuge in Britain and made a lasting mark on the nation's intellectual and cultural life. The book features colourful portraits of some of Britain's most celebrated artists, architects, musicians, choreographers, film makers, historians, philosophers, scientists, writers, broadcasters and publishers - all skilfully woven into the wider context of British cultural history from the 1930s to the present.Emigrés helped create the Glyndebourne and Edinburgh Festivals, the magazine Picture Post , films like The Red Shoes , the Royal Festival Hall and the cartoon character 'Supermac'. The founders of the publishing companies Phaidon and Thames & Hudson were émigrés , as were Ernst Gombrich (author of The Story of Art ), Nikolaus Pevsner (who documented 'The Buildings of England') and such key intellectual figures as the philosopher Karl Popper, the biochemist Max Perutz and the historians Eric Hobsbawm and Geoffrey Elton.Daniel Snowman considers the irony that many refugees (including three quarters of the future Amadeus Quartet) were interned by the British authorities as 'enemy aliens' -
| Publication Date: | 01/01/2003 |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Binding: | Paper Back |
| ISBN: | RP9780712665797 |
| Categories: | RP - Current Affairs Books starting from Rs.100 |
