Barbed Wire on the Isle of Man
Author | : Alexander Ramati |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alexander Ramati |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Connery Chappell |
Publisher | : Crowood Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"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.
Author | : Connery Chappell |
Publisher | : Robert Hale Ltd |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2017-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0719824435 |
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.
Author | : Alexander Ramati |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Jewish refugees |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard Chiverrell |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780853237266 |
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.
Author | : Dave Hannigan |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2021-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493063529 |
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 | : Reviel Netz |
Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780819567192 |
The history of animals and humans as seen through barbed wire.
Author | : Stefan Manz |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2020-02-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192590456 |
During the First World War, Britain was the epicentre of global mass internment and deportation operations. Germans, Austro-Hungarians, Turks, and Bulgarians who had settled in Britain and its overseas territories were deemed to be a potential danger to the realm through their ties with the Central Powers and were classified as 'enemy aliens'. A complex set of wartime legislation imposed limitations on their freedom of movement, expression, and property possession. Approximately 50,000 men and some women experienced the most drastic step of enemy alien control, namely internment behind barbed wire, in many cases for the whole duration of the war and thousands of miles away from the place of arrest. Enemies in the Empire is the first study to analyse British internment operations against civilian 'enemies' during the First World War from an imperial perspective. The narrative takes a three-pronged approach. In addition to a global examination, the volume demonstrates how internment operated on a (proto-) national scale within the three selected case studies of the metropole (Britain), a white dominion (South Africa), and a colony under direct rule (India). Stefan Manz and Panikos Panayi then bring their study to the local level by concentrating on the three camps Knockaloe (Britain), Fort Napier (South Africa), and Ahmednagar (India), allowing for detailed analyses of personal experiences. Although conditions were generally humane, in some cases, suffering occurred. The study argues that the British Empire played a key role in developing civilian internment as a central element of warfare and national security on a global scale.
Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |