The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison

by Nicholas Guyatt

Book Overview

A leading historian reveals the never-before-told story of a doomed British prison and the massacre of its American prisoners of war After the War of 1812, more than five thousand American sailors were marooned in Dartmoor Prison on a barren English plain; the conflict was over but they had been left to rot by their government. Although they shared a common nationality, the men were divided by race: nearly a thousand were Black, and at the behest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541645669
• ISBN13: 9781541645660
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.9" x 9.4"