Hitler's Loss

by Ambrose, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780720611076
• ISBN10: 0720611075
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-05
• Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers

Summary

"A scrapbook of the lives of famous European cultural exiles." - Publishers Weekly

Author Biography

Tom Ambrose grew up in Hampstead, London, where many of the refugees from Nazi Europe settled. He read history at Trinity College, Dublin, and gained a postgraduate degree at University College, London. After lecturing at University College, Suffolk, and completing a thesis at Newcastle University, he was drawn to advertising and worked in London and Dublin before switching to producing and directing television documentaries. He is now a full-time writer and divides his time between Suffolk and Ireland

Table of Contents

Introduction	9	(4)
Prelude	13	(2)
All That There Is Is Lost	15	(16)
Clutching at Straws	31	(16)
Fantasy and Film Noir	47	(18)
Art Blooms in Exile	65	(14)
Losing a Tongue But Finding a Voice	79	(18)
Berlin to Broadway	97	(16)
The Music Begins Again	113	(18)
An Operatic Diversion	131	(16)
Building the Future	147	(16)
To See Ourselves	163	(14)
Pure and Perverted Science	177	(18)
Learning from the Past	195	(14)
The Legacy of Exile	209	(8)
Select Bibliography	217	(6)
Index of Names	223