Alexis Pogorelskin is Professor Emerita in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, USA, where she was the department chair for nineteen years. She has published in Slavic Review and Oxford Slavonic Papers. She has taught History of Hollywood at the Russian State University for the Humanities while on a Fulbright. She was Rhodes Visiting Fellow at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, UK, and in 2015, she was the first Vera Brittain Scholar on Women and War at the University of Southampton, UK.
This is a wonderful book, a compelling book, a scholarly book that reads like a suspense novel or tragic drama. Its riveting historical-political analysis of rarely seen archival documents reveals a hidden tale of two British women writers' heroic work on behalf of truth and Nazi Germany's persecuted Jews within the often brutal, masculine American institutions of 1930s and 1940s Hollywood, government, and politics. * Kristin Bluemel, Professor of English and Wayne D. McMurray Endowed Chair in the Humanities, Monmouth University, US *