Barbed Wire University by Dave Hannigan - 9781493057702

Name: Barbed Wire University by Dave Hannigan - 9781493057702
Brand: Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield

Barbed Wire University tells the extraordinary tale of Winston Churchill\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2014Camp Hutchinson\u2014into a school, concert hall and artistic community.\n 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\n\nBarbed Wire University\nThe Untold Story of the Interned Jewish Intellectuals Who Turned an Island Prison into the Most Rema\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new it;