wyszukanych pozycji: 10
A Matter of Intelligence: Mi5 and the Surveillance of Anti-Nazi Refugees, 1933-50
ISBN: 9780719090790 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A matter of intelligence concerns the surveillance of anti-Nazi German refugees during the 1930s and 1940s by the British security service MI5. When Hitler took power in 1933, the Nazis began a reign of terror against their political opponents: communists, socialists, pacifists and liberals, many of whom were forced to flee Germany. Some of these political refugees came to Britain, where MI5 kept them under close surveillance. This study is based on the personal and organisational files that MI5 kept on them during the 1930s and 1940s - or at least those that have been released to the...
A matter of intelligence concerns the surveillance of anti-Nazi German refugees during the 1930s and 1940s by the British security service MI5. When H...
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464,10 zł |
German-Speaking Exiles in the Performing Arts in Britain After 1933
ISBN: 9789042036512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume focuses on the contribution of German-speaking refugees from Nazism to the performing arts in Britain, evaluating their role in broadcasting, theatre, film and dance from 1933 to the present. It contains essays evaluating the role of refugee artists in the BBC German Service, including the actor Martin Miller, the writer Bruno Adler and the journalist Edmund Wolf. Miller also made a career in the English theatre transcending the barrier of language, as did the actor Gerhard Hinze, whose transition to the English stage is an instructive example of adaptation to a new theatre...
This volume focuses on the contribution of German-speaking refugees from Nazism to the performing arts in Britain, evaluating their role in broadcasti...
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429,92 zł |
Exile in and from Czechoslovakia During the 1930s and 1940s
ISBN: 9789042029590 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume focuses on a previously under-researched area, namely exile in and from Czechoslovakia in the years prior to the Second World War as well as during the wartime and post-war periods. The study considers, firstly, the refugees from Germany and Austria who fled to Czechoslovakia during the 1930s; secondly, the refugees from Czechoslovakia, both German and Czech-speaking, who arrived in Britain in or around 1938 as refugees from Fascism; and thirdly, those who fled from Communism in 1948. From a variety of perspectives, the book examines the refugees' activities and achievements in a...
This volume focuses on a previously under-researched area, namely exile in and from Czechoslovakia in the years prior to the Second World War as well ...
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399,83 zł |
Exile and Gender I: Literature and the Press
ISBN: 9789004313798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This new volume in the series Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, entitled Exile and Gender: Literature and the Press, edited by Charmian Brinson and Andrea Hammel, focuses on the work of exiled women writers and journalists as well as on gendered representations in the writing of both male and female exiled writers. The contributions are in English or German. The seventeen contributions set out to both celebrate and critically examine the concepts of gender and sexuality in exile in a wide range of texts by well-known and lesser known authors, and...
This new volume in the series Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, entitled Exile and Gender: Literature and the ...
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472,92 zł |
‘Immortal Austria’?: Austrians in Exile in Britain
ISBN: 9789042021570 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Immortal Austria was the title of a theatrical pageant devised by Austrian refugees in wartime London, the name summarizing their collective memory of their homeland as a country of mountain scenery, historical grandeur and musical refinement. The reality of the country they had left, and the one to which some of them returned, was very different. This volume contains various studies of the representations of their homeland in the cultural production of Austrian exiles, including those projected by emigres working in the British film industry, those portrayed in the historical novel and in...
Immortal Austria was the title of a theatrical pageant devised by Austrian refugees in wartime London, the name summarizing their collective memory of...
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292,35 zł |
British Policy and the Refugees, 1933-1941
ISBN: 9780714647975 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the summer of 1940, when much of Europe had fallen under German domination, the British authorities instigated a harsh programme of internment or deportation of large numbers of people who had fled from Nazi oppression. This volume, written the same year - at a time when the role and the fate of the refugees was a burning issue - is a critique of government policies of the day.
In the summer of 1940, when much of Europe had fallen under German domination, the British authorities instigated a harsh programme of internment or d...
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752,12 zł |
Innocence and Experience: Childhood and the Refugees from Nazism in Britain
ISBN: 9781800799493 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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303,86 zł |
Out of Austria : The Austrian Centre in London in World War II
ISBN: 9781845114756 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Austrian Centre was established in London in 1939 by Austrians seeking refuge from Nazi Germany, of whom 30,000 had reached Britain by the outbreak of World War II. It soon developed into a comprehensive social, cultural and political organisation with a theatre and a weekly newspaper of its own. A Communist-influenced organisation, it also followed a distinct political agenda. In the first book on the cultural and political life of Austrian refugees in Britain, 'Out of Austria' assesses and evaluates the Austrian Centre's activities and achievements, while also examining the Austrians'...
The Austrian Centre was established in London in 1939 by Austrians seeking refuge from Nazi Germany, of whom 30,000 had reached Britain by the outbrea...
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622,44 zł |
Out of Austria: The Austrian Centre in London in World War II
ISBN: 9781350172449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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171,12 zł |
Exile and Gender II: Politics, Education and the Arts
ISBN: 9789004343511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Volume 18 in the series Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies is entitled Exile and Gender II: Politics, Education and the Arts. It is edited by Charmian Brinson, Jana Barbora Buresova and Andrea Hammel, and is intended as a companion volume to Volume 17, which focused on literature and the press. This new volume considers the life and work of exiled women politicians, academics and artists, among others, examining the ways – both positive and negative - in which their exile affected them. The sixteen contributions, which are in English or German, set out to...
Volume 18 in the series Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies is entitled Exile and Gender II: Politics, Education and...
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464,32 zł |