The Black Book

Sybil Oldfield

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The story of the heroic men and women that the Nazis singled out for death in their plan to invade Britain, including Noel Coward, Virginia Woolf and EM Forster. Mavericks and moral visionaries, their stories of courage are uncovered here for the first time. Oldfield sheds light and gives vivid insights into Nazi ideology and the culture of anti-fascist activism in 1930s Britain.

Book Details

Publisher: Ips - Profile Books
Publish Date: Oct 4th, 2022
Pages: 432
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.70in - 5.10in - 1.20in - 0.84lb
EAN: 9781788165099
Categories: • Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General• Europe - Great Britain - 20th Century• Modern - 20th Century - General

About the Author

Sybil Oldfield is half German and half English. Her grandmother was a pacifist feminist socialist who was placed under Schreibverbot during the Nazi dictatorship. Her mother was classified as an 'enemy alien naturalized by marriage' in Britain after WWII broke out. Oldfield is now Emeritus Reader in English at the University of Sussex and a researcher for The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. A nuclear pacifist, she has campaigned on the psychological disarmament side of the anti-war movement since the 1960s

Praise for this book

'This meticulous account ... demonstrates not only the passionate anti-fascist resistance in Britain but yet again the incredible richness of culture, science and education brought by the refugees ... Oldfield's conclusion comes in the form of an unanswerable and unsettling question: would we today, in modern Britain, champion the rights these people fought for with the same doggedness and courage?' - TLS

'Oldfield's thoroughly researched and fascinating historical biography explores the lives of many of the 2,600 citizens who attracted Hitler's ire, ranging from high-profile entertainers and writers to those naturalised refugees who doggedly resisted the Nazis from afar' - OBSERVER

'Fascinating ... It is as though someone compiled an edition of the Dictionary of National Biography for the year 1940 with the qualification for each entry being that the Nazis hated them' - BBC HISTORY