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A highly acclaimed anti-fascist novel, The Mortal Storm was Phyllis Bottome's dramatic warning against the warmongering, antisemitism, and misogyny of the Nazis. The story pits the developing political and feminist consciousness of Freya Roth against the Nazi machine that will destroy the fabric of her family and nation. In its combination of adventure and love story, political analysis and history, The Mortal Storm remains a powerful reminder of the greatest crisis of the twentieth century, as well as a riveting personal saga.---Library Thing
An anti-fascist novel acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic, The Mortal Storm was Phyllis Bottome's dramatic warning against the warmongering, anti-semitism, and misogyny of the Nazis. Highlighting Bottome's prolific writing career and lifelong humanitarian activism, The Mortal Storm tells the story of a German family -- a Jewish father, an aristocratic mother, two stepsons who have just joined the Nazi Party, a daughter in medical school, and a young, impressionable son -- during the early months of the Nazi rise to power. While tracing the Nazi takeover and the fracturing of German society, Bottome paints a moving portrait of a family united by love but divided by political belief and cultural identity.---Goodreads
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First published in October 1937 [October Mcmxxxvii] by Faber & Faber Ltd, London; a 2nd Impression in Oct. 1937; 3rd Impression Dec 1940; 4th Impression May 1941; 5th Impression September 1940, 6th Impression July 1942, 7th Impression April 1943. It appears to me that publication was held up with the World's fight against the ''wise & noble Hitler Brown Shirts!'' Praise God for helping our wartime heroes end ''The Great War.''
MGM [hurried pre-warning] 1940 Blockbuster ''The Mortal Storm'' produced by Loew's Inc., Frank Borzage, Director and Productions; screen play by Claudine West, Andersen Ellis & George Froeschel. Phyllis Bottome (Original book), Margaret Sullavan (Actor), Robert Stack, James Stewart, Robert Young (Actors)
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Pre-World War II Ficton. It is rebellious Fraulein Freya Toiler's birthday and she does not want to spend it with her cheeky brothers. She wants to do something special; something exciting and out of character of her. Well, she certainly does that ... as she wanders down the mountain to town, she is attacked, and very nearly raped by a group of town hooligans, only be saved from this disgusting ordeal by a well respected young and handsome Russian, Hans Breitner. As he and she ''... stopped to put on crampons so that they could more freely get through the trees,'' they became better acquainted and she learned the most unbelievable thing about this nice boy: he is not just a Russian, but a Communist Russian preparing to fight against the upcoming Nazi regime. ''People call Communists 'red,' and think of us under bad names--as if we attacked all they held dear, but Communists attack only selfishness. It is Nazis who attack knowledge; degrade women; persecute Jews; and drag their people back into serfdom. All we ask is a share of what our country possesses---for which we agree to work.''
But Communists,'' Freya objected, ''are not perhaps necessary at all---I do not think their way of living as good as these new Hitler Brown Shirts, of whom my brother Olaf is one. Olaf could not be one unless the Nazis had wise and noble aims.'' What follows for these two young people and the reader, is the horrific catastrophe started by these ''wise & noble Hitler Brown Shirts.'' .... Lest we Forget.
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