Barbed Wire University - The Untold Story of Interned Jewish Intellectuals Who Turned an

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Dave Hannigan, Hannigan Dave
• Verlag: Rowman and Littlefield
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781493057702
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-5770-2
• Seiten: 232
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945); Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Isle of Man, Jewish Studies, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Relating to Jewish people and groups, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, Great Britain;Hutchinson Camp;Isle of Man;World War II