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In haste and fear

A history of internment
by
March 2024, no. 462

British Internment and the Internment of Britons: Second World War camps, history and heritage edited by Gilly Carr and Rachel Pistol

Bloomsbury Academic, $170 hb, 300 pp

In haste and fear

A history of internment
by
March 2024, no. 462

The title and subtitle give it away. This edited collection considers two related subjects: the British practice of internment in World War II, and Britons’ experience of internment at the hands of enemy powers in that conflict. The editors define internment as ‘the state of civilian confinement caused by citizenship of a belligerent country’. Thus, the histories this book tells are those of civilian men, women, and children betrayed by nationality and circumstance, as opposed to those of military men captured in conflict. Each of the histories included here is worthy, and some are riveting. There is much in this volume that will be unfamiliar to students of internment and World War II generally.

British Internment and the Internment of Britons: Second World War camps, history and heritage

British Internment and the Internment of Britons: Second World War camps, history and heritage

edited by Gilly Carr and Rachel Pistol

Bloomsbury Academic, $170 hb, 300 pp

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