"Einstein on the Run" was a rather informative and interesting book focused on Albert Einstein and centering on the time of World War 2. It tells a rather interesting story that I, as someone who didn't know much about Einstein, found informative and entertaining.

This was an engrossing true story of how Britain helped to inspire and save the life of Albert Einstein.. Einstein was first inspired by science from Britain, and then he fled there during the war because he was Jewish. This is a fascinating view of this period in time.

I received an ARC of this book through NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased opinion.

Einstein on the Run tells of Einstein's time spent in England in the 1920s and 1930s, as well as the influence English scientists had on Einstein's work. In addition, the book goes into some detail about Einstein's scientific revolutionary theories.

I enjoyed the book, although a lot more of it took place outside of England than I had expected. This book made me relate to Einstein as a person more than I had expected to. This book is best for people who love both physics and history or have a desire to learn about both.

A useful addition to the literature concerning Albert Einstein, Einstein on the Run is a focussed narrative of Einstein's life in the early 1930's, and shows how his scientific and political thinking developed in this period.

Einstein On The Run was an enjoyable and enlightening book for anyone who might like to know about the life of Albert Einstein. A man who is highly regarded today but dealt with many rejections and personal difficulties while also having to step very carefully during a time of intense political turmoil.

We know that Einstein was a man of great genius in the world of Science and Math, but what we learn from this book is that he was also a man of strong convictions. He would not compromise his beliefs to gain fame, money nor even safety. This was during the Nazi occupation of parts of Europe which had him fleeing his homeland yet he refused to follow his Jewish roots to Israel because of how it would cause him to go against the core of his beliefs.

Though today we regard Einstein as being at the top of Scientific intellect, that full respect didn't really come to him until many years later. There were those in his field who did not agree with his theories or just didn't understand yet how much of an impact they would have in time. Some of the book talks about his theory of light, relativity and the unified field theory but it was not in any way overly done. In fact, while reading this book, I finally understood much of the basis of what we now know of Einstein's work. It was explained in a way that was very easy to understand. With that said, this book is still much more of a biography of sorts rather than any sort of Science book. Of course, with Einstein, the two tend to go hand in hand to at least some degree.

A good book that I would recommend to anyone interested in one of the greatest minds of Science.

Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of the eBook for a fair and honest review.

I really enjoyed this book! Einstein is a personal hero of mine and I loved hearing about this lesser known part of his life! I highly recommend to any history buff.

excessively readable (I was up all hours) and clearly setting out not only personality of the great man, but how friends reacted, and his fight for recognition, and the warm reception he had in the UK - lots of which I did not know about either. The author really knows his stuff, so this focus is very welcome. I also learned better and more about relativity which is not as simple as it might seem to be. the snippets referring to einstein's own words inspired me to look again at his autobiography - this is a sterling volume, and well worth the read. history of science is indebted to this author!

This is an excellent retelling of Albert Einstein’s time spent in England and at Oxford early in his career. While it delves in depth into his writings and the theory of relativity, it is understandable to non-science readers as well. It chronicles the struggle of other physicists to initially understand and accept his theories, his complicated relationship with his own country, Germany, and his time spent in England after resigning his German citizenship. There are little gems of knowledge told such as how his parents thought something was wrong with him as a child as he was too quiet. Turns out he wanted to be able to speak in complete sentences before fully speaking. His somewhat indifferent relationship with women is explored as well as his relationship to other fellow physicists and politicians. It touches many times on anti-Jewish sentiment from multiple countries that he experienced. It also explores why he went to England but did not ultimately stay there. It fascinatingly tries to explain how he came to understand the theory of relativity and the extreme negative reaction it engendered. It is a book worth reading to gain a better understanding of Einstein the person and Einstein the physicist.

What I was expecting: a detailed chronological account of Einstein's difficulties with the Nazis and his subsequent moves to Belgium, England, and eventually the US.

What I got: some detail on Einstein's scientific work, almost completely focused on relativity and his relationship to quantum mechanics; details on his changing relationships with several individuals--some scientists, some politicians; and pretty much everything he did in and concerning Great Britain.

If what you would want from this book is the former, then this is not the book for you.

It is arranged only semi-chronologically. Instead it is somewhat thematically presented, often backing up to cover what he did with scientist A, then back over those years with his relationship with scientist B, then back again to his dealings with politician C.

A more fitting title would be _Everything Einstein Had To Do with England (And a Few Other Things)._.

This book is a wonderful read. It is a definite keeper. Page after page of delightful facts and stories about Albert Einstein. The very best book that I have encountered in quite a while. Buy, it. read it. And enjoy every minute.

I read an ARC copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

I do not have a strong background in physics and found myself having to stop frequently to ask my science teacher partner to explain key concepts. This would then break up the flow and I'd have to reread sections.

When the author focused on people and politics, areas I do have a strong background in, the book was informative and aroused my curiosity.

Overall, a solid read but if you don't have a physics background be prepared to find answers.

Received this through Net Galley and to say the least I have read a lot of books about his life,his wife,the second wife,his children,his works but this out a whole new spin on Einstein and his time he was in England. This is a very well researched book and the background information that his works for to lead him into what resulted in the rest of his life!

This is a well-researched book that filled in a hole in my knowledge.  I just assumed that Einstein left Switzerland and came to the US.  I didn't know that he spent some time in Britain.  Robinson details the connections that Einstein had with British scientists who were instrumental in both proving and promulgating relativity.  

Anderson starts early in Einstein's life and brings him to Britain.  The book is well written, as well as well researched.  The only real problem I had was grasping some of the details of relativity.  This isn't a science text, but it is necessary to get some of the basics into the story.  

If you want to understand a particular portion of Einstein's life, this would be a good way to do it.

Einstein on the Run is a period focused biography about Einstein and how the British government interceded on his behalf and shielded him for a short period in 1933 in a remote part of England as well as his near-lifetime collaboration and friendship with other scientists and philosophers living in the UK. Released 8th Oct 2019 by Yale University Press, it's 376 pages and available in hardcover, audio, and ebook formats.

There have been so many biographies of Einstein and his life is so well documented that I didn't expect this biography to bring much more to the table than previous offerings. I was wrong. This is a meticulously detailed and respectfully rendered biography from which I gleaned quite a lot of new information. There are so many new (to me) photographs, excerpts from letters and interviews, contemporaneous comments from the media and colleagues that combined to give this biography a richness and accessibility showing him more as a human being and less as the iconic remote titan of physics which he also was.

The author, Andrew Robinson, is an experienced biographer and science writer (with several previous biographies including at least one other Einstein bio). The book definitely could've been very dry and academic, indeed the constraints of rigidity and proof inherent in biography writing might well trend toward the dry and factual recitation of dates and statistics, but the narrative here is warm and human, and engaging. The book has extensive footnotes, annotations, and references, but they don't overshadow the text. The book also includes an extensive bibliography and cross-referenced index for further reading.

Five stars. I really enjoyed this one. This would be a superlative selection for fans of science, Einstein, biography, 20th century cultural icons, etc.