Anna Aslanyan

Love in the shadow of the Nazi threat

Florian Illies describes the charged atmosphere of Europe in the early 1930s, as people grew increasingly desperate to celebrate their last chance of freedom

Reactionary groups closed ranks against Josephine Baker’s European tour of 1929. [Bridgeman Images]

  • Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-1939

    Florian Illies, translated by Simon Pare

    Profile, pp. 336, £20

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