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Island of Barbed Wire

Author : Connery Chappell
Publisher : Crowood Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Island of Barbed Wire written by Connery Chappell and published by Crowood Press (UK). This book was released on 2005 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Many aspects of Britain's involvement in World War Two only slowly emerged from beneath of the barrage of official secrets and popular misconception. One of the most controversial issues, the internment of 'enemy aliens' (and also British subjects) on the Isle of Man, received its first thorough examination in this account by Connery Chappell of life in the Manx camps between 1940 and 1945." "At the outbreak of war there were approximately 75,000 people of Germanic origin living in Britain, and Whitehall decided to set up Enemy Alien Tribunals to screen these 'potential security risks'. The entry of Italy into the war almost doubled the workload. The first tribunal in February 1940 considered only 569 cases as high enough risks to warrant internment. The Isle of Man was chosen as the one place sufficiently removed from areas of military importance, but by the end of the year the number of enemy aliens on the island had reached 14,000." "Even now, there remains the persistent question never settled satisfactorily. Were the internments ever justified or even consistent?"--BOOK JACKET.

Barbed Wire on the Isle of Man

Author : Alexander Ramati
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbed Wire on the Isle of Man written by Alexander Ramati and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1980 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Island of Barbed Wire

Author : Connery Chappell
Publisher : Robert Hale Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0719824435
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Island of Barbed Wire written by Connery Chappell and published by Robert Hale Ltd. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the Second World War there were estimated to be 75,000 'enemy aliens' living in Britain, each a potential security risk. To screen these, Enemy Alien Tribunals were set up, with the first tribunal judging only 569 cases serious enough to warrant internment. The Isle of man was chosen as somewhere secure enough to hold them. But when Italy entered the war in 1940, the tribunals' workload grew and, by the end of the year, the number of enemy aliens on the island had risen to 14,000. Who were these internees? How did they cope with being interned? Did any try to escape? What was daily life like inside the camps? How great a risk did they really pose? With the use of diaries, newspapers and personal testimonies, Island of Barbed Wire looks at the selection, arrival, living conditions and, ultimately, repatriation, of the internees. Their lives and the live of the Manx people they came into contact with would never be the same when this popular holiday isle was transformed into an internment camp for the duration of the war. And even now the question remains - was the policy of internment ever justified? Island of Barbed Wire was the first thorough examination into one of the more controversial happenings of World War Two.

Barbed Wire University

Author : Dave Hannigan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493063529
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Barbed Wire University written by Dave Hannigan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbed Wire University tells the extraordinary tale of Winston Churchill’s internment of some of the most gifted Jewish refugee writers, professors, artists, and painters of their generation in a camp on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea. These were men who had fled Hitler’s Germany, found refuge in Britain, and then, in the hysteria of 1940, were held in captivity as a perceived security threat. They turned the camp—Hutchinson Camp—into a school, concert hall, and artistic community. Using memoirs and diaries, some of which have only recently become available in archives, Dave Hannigan pieces together a richly detailed account of what these remarkable men did during their time in captivity. This is a forgotten corner of World War II, and the way these men constructed a Bohemian idyll in the middle of the Irish Sea, their freedom taken from them, is an extraordinary tale of grit and creativity.

Barbed wire on the Isle of Man ; the wartime British internment of Jews

Author : Alexander Ramati
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Barbed wire on the Isle of Man ; the wartime British internment of Jews written by Alexander Ramati and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Living with the Wire

Author : Yvonne M. Cresswell
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
ISBN 13 : 9780901106636
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (66 download)

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Book Synopsis Living with the Wire by : Yvonne M. Cresswell

Download or read book Living with the Wire written by Yvonne M. Cresswell and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A New History of the Isle of Man: The modern period 1830-1999

Author : Richard Chiverrell
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853237266
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (372 download)

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Book Synopsis A New History of the Isle of Man: The modern period 1830-1999 by : Richard Chiverrell

Download or read book A New History of the Isle of Man: The modern period 1830-1999 written by Richard Chiverrell and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New History of the Isle of Man will provide a new benchmark for the study of the island’s history. In five volumes, it will survey all aspects of the history of the Isle of Man, from the evolution of the natural landscape through prehistory to modern times. The Modern Period is the first volume to be published. Wide in coverage, embracing political, constitutional, economic, labor, social and cultural developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the volume is particularly concerned with issues of image, identity and representation. From a variety of angles and perspectives, contributors explore the ways in which a sense of Manxness was constructed, contested, continued and amended as the little Manx nation underwent unprecedented change from debtors’ retreat through holiday playground to offshore international financial center.

Barbed Wire on the Isle of Man: the Wartime British Interment of Jews

Author : Alexander Ramati
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Barbed Wire on the Isle of Man: the Wartime British Interment of Jews written by Alexander Ramati and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War

Author : Gilly Carr
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136322361
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War written by Gilly Carr and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the numerous examples of creativity produced by POWs and civilian internees during their captivity, including: paintings, cartoons, craftwork, needlework, acting, musical compositions, magazine and newspaper articles, wood carving, and recycled Red Cross tins turned into plates, mugs and makeshift stoves, all which have previously received little attention. The authors of this volume show the wide potential of such items to inform us about the daily life and struggle for survival behind barbed wire. Previously dismissed as items which could only serve to illustrate POW memoirs and diaries, this book argues for a central role of all items of creativity in helping us to understand the true experience of life in captivity. The international authors draw upon a rich seam of material from their own case studies of POW and civilian internment camps across the world, to offer a range of interpretations of this diverse and extraordinary material.

The Island of Extraordinary Captives

Author : Simon Parkin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 198217854X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Island of Extraordinary Captives written by Simon Parkin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “riveting…truly shocking” (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected foreign agents on the Isle of Man, alongside a renowned group of refugee musicians, intellectuals, artists, and—possibly—genuine spies. Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo’s roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England on a Kindertransport rescue, an effort sanctioned by the UK government to evacuate minors from Nazi-controlled areas.train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. During Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s, tens of thousands of German and Austrian Jews like Peter escaped and found refuge in Britain. After war broke out and paranoia gripped the nation, Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered that these innocent asylum seekers—so-called “enemy aliens”—be interned. When Peter arrived at Hutchinson Camp, he found one of history’s most astounding prison populations: renowned professors, composers, journalists, and artists. Together, they created a thriving cultural community, complete with art exhibitions, lectures, musical performances, and poetry readings. The artists welcomed Peter as their pupil and forever changed the course of his life. Meanwhile, suspicions grew that a real spy was hiding among them—one connected to a vivacious heiress from Peter’s past. Drawing from unpublished first-person accounts and newly declassified government documents, award-winning journalist Simon Parkin reveals an “extraordinary yet previously untold true story” (Daily Express) that serves as a “testimony to human fortitude despite callous, hypocritical injustice” (The New Yorker) and “an example of how individuals can find joy and meaning in the absurd and mundane” (The Spectator).

Barbed Wire

Author : Reviel Netz
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819567192
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Barbed Wire written by Reviel Netz and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of animals and humans as seen through barbed wire.

Barbed Wire Disease

Author : Adolf Lucas Vischer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Barbed Wire Disease written by Adolf Lucas Vischer and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Secret Purposes

Author : David Baddiel
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060765828
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Purposes written by David Baddiel and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having fled life in pre-World War II East Prussia for the safety of Cambridge, Isaac and Lulu Fabian find themselves placed in an internment camp by the British government along with thousands of fellow Jewish Germans.

Pandemonium

Author : Janet Cardiff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780907689751
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Pandemonium written by Janet Cardiff and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Woman of Knockaloe

Author : Hall Caine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Woman of Knockaloe written by Hall Caine and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set on the Isle of Man amid the First World War, the novel relates the life of Mona Craine, a young lady who lives with her sibling and their maturing father. Mona's life is upset first by her sibling being called up to battle in France, and afterward by the specialists consenting to set up an internment camp for adversary outsiders there at Knockaloe. Mona agrees to live there still and supply sustenance for them terrible Germans against her desire and just for her evil dad. In any case, her hard and unforgiving demeanor towards the Germans starts to decrease when she meets the neighborly and articulate Oskar Heine. As they begin to look all starry eyed at, they additionally need to manage the furious antagonistic vibe of the nearby network.

The Isle of Man

Author : Matthew Richardson
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526720787
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Isle of Man written by Matthew Richardson and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the long and fascinating history of this tiny self-governing island in the Irish Sea. Many people don’t know that the tiny Isle of Man, midway between the coasts of Lancashire and Northern Ireland, is one of the richest historic landscapes in Europe. Packed into its 225 square miles are dramatic stories of Bronze Age conflict, Viking warriors, medieval kings, smugglers, maritime and railway history, wartime airfields, and even a pirate radio station. Add to that the island's unique motorsport heritage (on two, three and four wheels), and you have a combination unrivaled anywhere in the British Isles. Whatever your passion, or whichever historical period appeals to you, the Isle of Man will have something fascinating to offer. Packed with illustrations, and using first-hand accounts to enhance the narrative, this book takes you on a chronological journey through the island’s history, before offering a series of guided tours which pick up the highlights of each district. From Bronze Age hill forts to medieval castles, from heritage railways to historic quaysides, from award-winning museums to country mansions, the Isle of Man has it all. Let this book be your guide to historic Britain's best-kept secret, as you explore a place untouched by the hectic pace of twenty-first-century life. Includes photos

The Barbed-Wire University

Author : Midge Gillies
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1845137272
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book The Barbed-Wire University written by Midge Gillies and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A moving and eye-opening account of the lives of second world war PoWs by the daughter of a man who was captured . . . a riveting collection of stories.” —The Guardian Feature films like The Bridge on the River Kwai and The Great Escape have created the stereotype of the Second World War prisoner of war. But, as Midge Gillies shows in this groundbreaking work of social history, the true experiences of nearly half a million Allied servicemen held captive during the Second World War were nothing like the Hollywood myth—and infinitely more extraordinary. The real lives of POWs saw them respond to the tedium of a German stalag or the brutality of a Japanese camp with the most amazing ingenuity and creativity. They staged glittering shows, concerts and elaborate sporting fixtures, made exquisite ornaments—even, amid the terrible privations of the Thailand-Burma railway, improvised daring surgical techniques to save their fellow men’s lives. Whatever skills or hobbies they took with them to captivity they managed to continue and adapt—to the extent of laying out a 9-hole golf course between the huts of one German camp. They took up crafts and pastimes using materials they found around them: even the string from a Red Cross food parcel was used to make cricket balls, football nets and wigs for theatrical performances. Men studied, attended lectures, learned languages, sat for qualifications and exams, on such a scale that one camp was nicknamed “The Barbed-Wire University.” Drawing on letters home, diaries and interviews with redoubtable survivors now into their nineties, Midge Gillies recreates the daily lives of a truly remarkable group of men. “Astonishing tales of improvisation, ingenuity and courage.” —The Spectator