The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

Right from the start, the Allies’ postwar reconstruction plan was cultural as well as practical: the mindset of the Third Reich was to be obliterated. Over the next four years, many of the foremost writers and filmmakers of their generation were dispatched by Britain and America to help rebuild the country their governments had spent years bombing. Among them, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Marlene Dietrich, George Orwell, and W.H. Auden. Feigel traces the experiences of these figures and through their individual stories offers an entirely fresh view of post-war Europe.