Barbed Wire University

Author : Dave Hannigan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493063529

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Barbed Wire University by Dave Hannigan Pdf

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.

Author : Midge Gillies
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845137274

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The Barbed-Wire University by Midge Gillies Pdf

“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

Author : Reviel Netz
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780819569592

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Barbed Wire by Reviel Netz Pdf

The history of animals and humans as seen through barbed wire.

Author : Aidan Forth
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520293977

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Barbed-Wire Imperialism by Aidan Forth Pdf

Introduction : Britain's empire of camps -- Concentrating the "dangerous classes" : the cultural and material foundations of British camps -- "Barbed wire deterrents" : detention and relief at Indian famine campus, 1876-1901 -- "A source of horror and dread" : plague camps in Indian and South Africa, 1896-1901 -- Concentrated humanity : the management and anatomy of colonial campus, c. 1900 -- Camps in a time of war : civilian concentration in southern Africa, 1900-1901 -- "Only matched in times of famine and plague" : life and death in the concentration camps -- "A system steadily perfected" : camp reform and the "new geniuses from India", 1901-1903 -- Epilogue : Camps go global : lessons, legacies, and forgotten solidarities

Author : Yasutaro Soga
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824863357

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Life Behind Barbed Wire by Yasutaro Soga Pdf

Yasutaro Soga’s Life behind Barbed Wire (Tessaku seikatsu) is an exceptional firsthand account of the incarceration of a Hawai‘i Japanese during World War II. On the evening of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Soga, the editor of a Japanese-language newspaper, was arrested along with several hundred other prominent Issei ( Japanese immigrants) in Hawai‘i. After being held for six months on Sand Island, Soga was transferred to an Army camp in Lordsburg, New Mexico, and later to a Justice Department camp in Santa Fe. He would spend just under four years in custody before returning to Hawai‘i in the months following the end of the war. Most of what has been written about the detention of Japanese Americans focuses on the Nisei experience of mass internment on the West Coast—largely because of the language barrier immigrant writers faced. This translation, therefore, presents us with a rare Issei voice on internment, and Soga’s opinions challenge many commonly held assumptions about Japanese Americans during the war regarding race relations, patriotism, and loyalty. Although centered on one man’s experience, Life behind Barbed Wire benefits greatly from Soga’s trained eye and instincts as a professional journalist, which allowed him to paint a larger picture of those extraordinary times and his place in them. The Introduction by Tetsuden Kashima of the University of Washington and Foreword by Dennis Ogawa of the University of Hawai‘i provide context for Soga’s recollections based on the most current scholarship on the Japanese American internment.

Author : Karen Lea Riley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 074250171X

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Schools Behind Barbed Wire by Karen Lea Riley Pdf

Often overlooked in the infamous history of U.S. internment during World War II is the plight of internee children. Drawn from personal interviews and multiple primary source materials, Schools behind Barbed Wire is the story of the boys and girls who grew up in the Crystal City, TX internment camp and spent the war years attending one of its three internment camp schools. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Miroslav Marinovič
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Dissenters
ISBN : 9781580469814

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The Universe Behind Barbed Wire by Miroslav Marinovič Pdf

Ukrainian dissident Myroslav Marynovych recounts his involvement in the Brezhnev-era human rights movement in the Soviet Union and his resulting years as a political prisoner in Siberia and in internal exile.

Author : Robert T. Clifton
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : 0806108762

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Barbs, Prongs, Points, Prickers, & Stickers by Robert T. Clifton Pdf

Contains a complete and illustrated catalogue of antique barbed wire.

Author : Simon Parkin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982178529

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The Island of Extraordinary Captives by Simon Parkin Pdf

Barbed-Wire Matinee -- Five Shots -- Fire and Crystal -- The Rescuers -- Sunset Train -- The Basement and the Judge -- Spy Fever -- Nightmare Mill -- The Misted Isle -- The University of Barbed Wire -- The Vigil -- The Suicide Consultancy -- Into the Crucible -- The First Goodbyes -- Love and Paranoia -- The Heiress -- Art and Justice -- Home for Christmas? -- The Isle of Forgotten Men -- A Spy Cornered -- Return to the Mill -- The Final Trial.

Author : Lyn Ellen Bennett,Scott Abbott
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623495824

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The Perfect Fence by Lyn Ellen Bennett,Scott Abbott Pdf

Barbed wire is made of two strands of galvanized steel wire twisted together for strength and to hold sharp barbs in place. As creative advertisers sought ways to make an inherently dangerous product attractive to customers concerned about the welfare of their livestock, and as barbed wire became commonplace on battlefields and in concentration camps, the fence accrued a fascinating and troubling range of meanings beyond the material facts of its construction. In The Perfect Fence, Lyn Ellen Bennett and Scott Abbott explore the multiple uses and meanings of barbed wire, a technological innovation that contributes to America’s shift from a pastoral ideal to an industrial one. They survey the vigorous public debate over the benign or “infernal” fence, investigate legislative attempts to ban or regulate wire fences as a result of public outcry, and demonstrate how the industry responded to ameliorate the image of its barbed product. Because of the rich metaphorical possibilities suggested by a fence that controls through pain, barbed wire developed into an important motif in works of literature from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Early advertisements proclaimed that barbed wire was “the perfect fence,” keeping “the ins from being outs, and the outs from being ins.” Bennett and Abbott conclude that while barbed wire is not the perfect fence touted by manufacturers, it is indeed a meaningful thing that continues to influence American identities.

Author : David J. Carter
Publisher : Elkwater, Alta. : Eagle Butte Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Prisoner-of-war camps
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028772353

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POW, Behind Canadian Barbed Wire by David J. Carter Pdf

Author : Gilly Carr,Harold Mytum
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136322365

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Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War by Gilly Carr,Harold Mytum Pdf

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.

Author : Kassandra Luciuk
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781771134736

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Enemy Alien by Kassandra Luciuk Pdf

This graphic history tells the story of Canada’s first national internment operations through the eyes of John Boychuk, an internee held in Kapuskasing from 1914 to 1917. The story is based on Boychuk’s actual memoir, which is the only comprehensive internee testimony in existence. The novel follows Boychuk from his arrest in Toronto to Kapuskasing, where he spends just over three years. It details the everyday struggle of the internees in the camp, including forced labour and exploitation, abuse from guards, malnutrition, and homesickness. It also documents moments of internee agency and resistance, such as work slowdowns and stoppages, hunger strikes, escape attempts, and riots. Little is known about the lives of the incarcerated once the paper trail stops, but Enemy Alien subsequently traces Boychuk’s parole, his search for work, his attempts to organize a union, and his ultimate settlement in Winnipeg. Boychuk’s reflections emphasize the much broader context in which internment takes place. This was not an isolated incident, but rather part and parcel of Canadian nation building and the directives of Canada’s settler colonial project.

Author : Robert S. McKelvey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0295998199

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A Gift of Barbed Wire by Robert S. McKelvey Pdf

A Gift of Barbed Wire is a penetrating look at the lives of South Vietnamese officials and their families left behind in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975. A former Marine who served in Vietnam, Robert McKelvey went on to practice psychiatry and, through his work in refugee camps and U.S. social service organizations, met South Vietnamese men from all walks of life who had been imprisoned in re-education camps immediately after the war. McKelvey's interviews with these former political prisoners, their wives, and their children reveal the devastating, long-term impact of their incarceration. From the early years in French colonial Vietnam through the Vietnam War, from postwar ordeals of re-education camps, social ostracism, and poverty to eventual emigration to the United States, this collection of narratives provides broad and highly personal accounts of individuals and families evolving against the backdrop of war and vast social change. Some of the people interviewed for the book eventually reached the United States as boat people fleeing Vietnam in unsafe vessels; others arrived, after rigorous screening, through U.S. Government-sponsored programs. But even in the safety of the United States they had to begin anew, devoting all their remaining energies to survival. While crediting the courage and resilience of these families, McKelvey holds a critical mirror up to our culture, exploring the nature of our responsibility to our allies as well as the attitudes that obscured the reality of war as "a grinding, brutal interplay of complex forces that often develops a sustaining energy and momentum of its own, driving us in directions that we neither anticipated nor desired."

Author : Adolf Lucas Vischer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Nervous system
ISBN : CHI:73266969

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Barbed Wire Disease by Adolf Lucas Vischer Pdf