Barbed Wire University - by Dave Hannigan (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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 h<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"In Barbed Wire University, Dave Hannigan tells the remarkable but largely hidden story of a group of German Jewish artists and intellectuals who were interned by the British on the Isle of Man during World War II. His book is not only witty, highly readable, and entertaining from first page to last, but it fills in a gaping hole in our knowledge of how the British government responded to German aggression by imprisoning innocent men, most of them anti-Nazis, who had fled their homelands to seek refuge in Great Britain." --David Nasaw, two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and author of, most recently, The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War<br><br>"The internment of Jewish refugees by the British in 1940 is one of the forgotten episodes of World War II. Well researched and expertly told, Hannigan's book tells an inspiring story of innocent people caught up in the absurdities of war." --Keith Lowe, author of Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II and The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Dave Hannigan is columnist with the Irish Times (Dublin), the Evening Echo (Cork) and the Irish Echo (New York). He's a professor of history at Suffolk County Community College on Long Island and resides in Setauket, New York. This is his tenth book.
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