Barbed Wire University: The Untold Story of the Interned Jewish Intellectuals Who Turned an Island Prison Into the Most Remarkable School in t

by Dave Hannigan

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493057707
• ISBN13: 9781493057702
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"