
British Concentration Camps
A Brief History from 1900 - 1975
Simon Webb(Author)
Pen & Sword Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 1. April 2016
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-4738-4629-6 (ISBN)
Description
For many of us, the very expression 'Concentration Camp' is inextricably linked to Nazi Germany and the horrors of the Holocaust. The idea of British concentration camps is a strange and unsettling one. It was however the British, rather than the Germans, who were the chief driving force behind the development and use of concentration camps in the Twentieth Century. The operation by the British army of concentration camps during the Boer War led to the deaths of tens of thousands of children from starvation and disease. More recently, slave-labourers confined in a nationwide network of camps played an integral role in Britain's post-war prosperity. In 1947, a quarter of the country's agricultural workforce were prisoners in labour camps. Not only did the British government run their own concentration camps, they willingly acquiesced in the setting up of such establishments in the United Kingdom by other countries. During and after the Second World War, the Polish government-in-exile maintained a number of camps in Scotland where Jews, communists and homosexuals were imprisoned and sometimes killed.This book tells the terrible story of Britain's involvement in the use of concentration camps, which did not finally end until the last political prisoners being held behind barbed wire in the United Kingdom were released in 1975.
From England to Cyprus, Scotland to Malaya, Kenya to Northern Ireland; British Concentration Camps; A Brief History from 1900 to 1975 details some of the most shocking and least known events in British history.
From England to Cyprus, Scotland to Malaya, Kenya to Northern Ireland; British Concentration Camps; A Brief History from 1900 to 1975 details some of the most shocking and least known events in British history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Barnsley
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
20 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4738-4629-6 (9781473846296)
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Simon Webb is the author of a number of non-fiction books; ranging from academic works on education to popular history. He also writes for various magazines and newspapers, including The Daily Telegraph, Times Educational Supplement and The Independent.