Description: An interdisciplinary collection of essays which discusses the history and heritage of civilian 'enemy alien' internment in Britain and the internment of British civilians on the continent.
Brief description: Rachel Pistol is a digital historian at King's College London, UK, where she works on the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) and is the National Coordinator of EHRI-UK. She has published widely on refugees and Second World War internment including Internment during the Second World War (2017) and is the co-editor, along with Larissa Allwork, of The Jews, the Holocaust, and the Public (2019).
Review Quotes:
"[Carr] and Pistol make a valuable contribution to studies of civilian internment in the Second World War for both scholars and tertiary students, illuminating lesser recognized camps and highlighting forced mobilities within the internment system. Rather than local or national relevance alone, they rightly place the camps into a larger transnational narrative of civilian incarceration during war." --Journal of British Studies
"The volume represents an important step in exploring an element of history that is all too often overlooked, and the contribution that it makes is a valuable one. Students of modern British history will find this group of studies enriching their perspective on an aspect of the government's policies and of people's experiences." --H-Net Reviews "A well- researched book, which fills a gap on the historical study of internees." --Canberra CityNews