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  • Nazi Prisons in the British Isles

    Political Prisoners during the German Occupation of Jersey and Guernsey, 1940–1945

    by Gilly Carr ...
    Series series Modern Conflict Archaeology
    With firsthand sources and archeological research, this study explores life inside Nazi prisons during the occupation of the Channel Islands.Through most of the Second World War, Nazis occupied the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, two British Crown dependencies in the English Channel. With extensive research, archeologist Gilly Carr has uncovered the enduring legacies of this occupation. In Nazi ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Materiality of Internment

    by Gilly Carr ...
    Series series Material Culture and Modern Conflict
    More than two thousand people from the British Channel Islands were deported to and interned in Germany during the Second World War, making up as many as 60% of all interned British citizens in occupied territory during this period.This book carries out an in-depth analysis of artwork, objects, oral testimonies, archives, poetry, letters, diaries and memoirs gathered from the internees and drawing ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • British Internment and the Internment of Britons

    Second World War Camps, History and Heritage

    Edited by Dr Gilly Carr, Dr. Rachel Pistol ...
    This edited volume presents a cutting-edge discussion and analysis of civilian 'enemy alien' internment in Britain, the internment of British civilians on the continent, and civilian internment camps run by the British within the wider British Empire. The book brings together a range of interdisciplinary specialists including archaeologists, historians, and heritage practitioners to give a full ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Prisoners of War

    Archaeology, Memory, and Heritage of 19th- and 20th-Century Mass Internment

    Edited by Harold Mytum, Gilly Carr ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The archaeology of war has revealed evidence of bravery, sacrifice, heroism, cowardice, and atrocities. Mostly absent from these narratives of victory and defeat, however, are the experiences of prisoners of war, despite what these can teach us about cruelty, ingenuity, and human adaptability. The international array of case studies in Prisoners of War restores this hidden past through case ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands

    A Legitimate Heritage?

    by Dr Gilly Carr ...
    Victims of Nazi Persecution from the Channel Islands explores the fight and claims for recognition and legitimacy of those from the only part of the British Isles to be occupied during the Second World War. The struggle to have resistance recognised by the local governments of the islands as a legitimate course of action during the occupation is something that still continues today.Drawing on 100 ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Protest, Defiance and Resistance in the Channel Islands

    German Occupation, 1940-45

    by Dr Gilly Carr, Professor Paul Sanders, Dr Louise Willmot ...
    The Nazi occupation of Europe of World War Two is acknowledged as a defining juncture and an important identity-building experience throughout contemporary Europe. Resistance is what 'saves' European societies from an otherwise chequered record of collaboration on the part of their economic, political, cultural and religious elites. Opposition took pride of place as a legitimizing device in the ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Heritage and Memory of War

    Responses from Small Islands

    Edited by Gilly Carr, Keir Reeves ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Heritage
    Every large nation in the world was directly or indirectly affected by the impact of war during the course of the twentieth century, and while the historical narratives of war of these nations are well known, far less is understood about how small islands coped. These islands – often not nations in their own right but small outposts of other kingdoms, countries, and nations – have been relegated ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Legacies of Occupation

    Heritage, Memory and Archaeology in the Channel Islands

    by Gilly Carr ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the way in which the legacy of the German occupation of the Channel Islands has been turned into heritage (or, conversely, neglected) over the last 70 years. Once seen as the ‘taint of the mark of the beast’, the perception of much of what the Germans left behind has slowly changed from being despised and reviled, buried underground or dumped at sea, to being reclaimed, restored ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War

    Creativity Behind Barbed Wire

    Edited by Gilly Carr, Harold Mytum ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Heritage
    This book focuses on the numerous examples of creativity produced by POWs and civilian internees during their captivity, including: paintings, cartoons, craftwork, needlework, acting, musical compositions, magazine and newspaper articles, wood carving, and recycled Red Cross tins turned into plates, mugs and makeshift stoves, all which have previously received little attention. The authors of this ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior

    A History of Canadian Internment Camp R

    by Ernest Robert Zimmermann ...
    An in-depth history of one of Canada's World War II internment camps that held both Nazis and anti-Nazis alike.For eighteen months during the Second World War, the Canadian military interned 1,145 prisoners of war in Red Rock, Ontario (about 100 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay). Camp R interned friend and foe alike: Nazis, anti-Nazis, Jews, soldiers, merchant seamen, and refugees whom Britain ... Read more

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  • Churchill and Orwell

    The Fight for Freedom

    by Thomas E. Ricks ...
    **A New York Times bestseller!A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike.**Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's—Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Vimy Trap

    or, How We Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Great War

    by Ian McKay, Jamie Swift ...
    The story of the bloody 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge is, according to many of today’s tellings, a heroic founding moment for Canada. This noble, birth-of-a-nation narrative is regularly applied to the Great War in general. Yet this mythical tale is rather new. “Vimyism”— today’s official story of glorious, martial patriotism—contrasts sharply with the complex ways in which veterans, artists, clerics, ... Read more

    $20.89 USD