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British Concentration Camps: A Brief History from 1900–1975 Kindle Edition

by Simon Webb (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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This revealing history explores Britain’s use of concentration camps from the Boer War to WWII and the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

The term concentration camp will forever be associated with the horrors of Nazi Germany. But the British were the true driving force behind the development of these notorious facilities. During the Boer War, British concentration camps caused the deaths of tens of thousands of children from starvation and disease. In the years after World War II, hundreds of thousands of enslaved agricultural workers were held in a national network of camps.

Not only did the British government run its own camps, they allowed other countries to set up similar facilities within the United Kingdom. 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.

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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 works as a consultant on the subject of capital punishment to television companies and filmmakers and also writes for various magazines and newspapers; including the Times Educational Supplement, Daily Telegraph and the Guardian.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01BF6MMRQ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pen & Sword History (January 31, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 31, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 13223 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 253 pages
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Simon Webb is the author of many non-fiction books, ranging from academic works on education to popular history. He has also written dozens of westerns under both his own name and a variety of pseudonyms, such as Harriet Cade, Fenton Sadler and Jay Clanton. He works as a consultant on the subject of capital punishment to television companies and filmmakers and also writes fro various magazines and newspapers, including the Times educational Supplement, Daily Telegraph and The Guardian.

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Stephen714
1.0 out of 5 stars Offensive
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2022
There are many ways to describe a camp that resorting to these words that are particularly associated with Nazis and Nazi Germany. Just as in the US there were Nazis being thrown around at trumps fascist followers. Horrors of Nazism are unique do a time In Germany and around Germany built by Germany. The casual use of the word concentration camp are offensive
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not Death Camps like Soviet industrialized Death Camps
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2018
The problem with deciphering history is that most of today's academic's have been pruned and prepared at
so-called educational institutions that are blatantly bias and, in the post 1920 realm practically Communists.
Ever note the constant reference to Nazi Germany but no reference to Communism? Like the chicken and egg
argument, what came first? There are definitely other examples of so-called concentration/POW camps like Andersonville
in the US South during the Civil War. The problem with the use of the word "concentration" is that is means just that.
Webb is assuming that "concentration" means death camp. The reason the Boers were put into camps was because they
fought an uniformed guerrilla war that involved both women and children. Were the camps INTENDED to be death camps?
NO. When you look at the numbers, just as many non-Boers died of disease and starvation during the war as well as a hell of
a lot of British and Commonwealth soldiers. The issue here is cutting through the crap and getting close to reality. As for the Nazi's, Lenin
and his Bolsheviks were the FIRST to set up what were deliberately DEATH CAMPS. These were mass execution camps on an industrial level as well as the Gulag system under, oddly enough, a Jew who ran the Cheka. THIS PREDATES NAZI Camps folks. So why no mention? Well likely because, like most today, Webb is likely a leftist Commie lover. They love to just completely forget the Bolsheviks and Soviets. In fact the Nazi's learned the art of the death camp from the Soviets - PERIOD. Nothing makes any of this right or justifiable but PLEASE STOP injecting your modern political views into past events.
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Mike Olley
5.0 out of 5 stars Gosh, Britain leads the world in many ways - shame
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 23, 2022
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We probably know all that Simon Webb writes about. Yet being proud of our great nation we become blindsided. Simon isn’t. He brings focus and clarity and sadly shame on our nation. Well shame we bring ably ourselves. Simon but the messenger.

It difficult to feel that socialist governments operated concentration camps that held Jewish people, but we did.

I hopeful that the historical focus Simon Webb brings will help us learn our history, thus making us all a little better. Maybe 🤔
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JH
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most interresting books I have read
Reviewed in Germany on January 18, 2018
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They say you learn something new every day. The truth is that a lot of books I read just regiurgitate the same old stuff but this book is different. Pretty much every page covered something I had never heard of before. Well written, well researched and fascinating.
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nigel grizzard
4.0 out of 5 stars This is a fascinating book, that I purchased because ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 11, 2016
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This is a fascinating book, that I purchased because of the write up I had seen in the Jewish Chronicle about the treatment of Jews in the Polish Forces in Scotland during WW2 which is a chapter in the book. My father in law whom I never knew was a Polish Jewish soldier in Scotland, he was older than most having been born in 1908 and the pictures we have of him do not seem to show the antisemitism that the book talks about.

For Jewish Historians there is a chapter about Atlit - the Detention Camp in Cyprus where the British imprisoned Jews who they had stopped entering Palestine after WW2.

Other chapters include ones on the Mau Mau in Kenya, the British in Malaya post WW2 and internment in Northern Ireland.

I learnt a lot from the book. Missing in my view was any mention of the internment of Jews in the Isle of Man during WW2 and the book would have benefitted if it had more detailed referencing. However it is a worthy addition to my bookshelf.
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SJ Lewis
5.0 out of 5 stars Who knew?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 7, 2021
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One of Britain's grubby little secrets. When the anti cancel culture warriors go on about history which cannot be erased, they naturally don't mean this sort of history. A sobering read.
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gareth
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 25, 2017
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Great book, enlightening!
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