'Collar The Lot!': How Britain Interned And Expelled Its Wartime Refugees
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Collar the Lot! is a damning indictment of one of Britain's most shameful wartime secrets — the mass internment and forced deportation of thousands of refugees who had fled Nazi persecution, only to be imprisoned by the very nation that had promised them sanctuary. Drawing on meticulous archival research and survivor testimonies, Peter and Leni Gillman chronicle how Winston Churchill's sweeping order — Collar the lot! — unleashed a wave of panic-driven policy that saw enemy aliens, Jewish émigrés, and anti-fascist intellectuals herded behind barbed wire and shipped to distant shores, most infamously aboard the ill-fated troopship Arandora Star. The Gillmans write with the precision of investigative journalists and the moral urgency of historians who understand the stakes of silence, exposing the bureaucratic callousness and xenophobic hysteria that gripped Whitehall in the summer of 1940. Their work sits at a vital intersection of wartime history and civil liberties, forcing a reckoning with the gap between Britain's self-image as a refuge for the persecuted and the reality of its wartime conduct. A deeply unsettling portrait of fear overriding principle, this account leaves the reader questioning just how far any democratic government will go when gripped by the spectre of invasion.
Author: Peter And Leni Gillman
Format: Hardback
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Collar the Lot! is a damning indictment of one of Britain's most shameful wartime secrets — the mass internment and forced deportation of thousands of refugees who had fled Nazi persecution, only to be imprisoned by the very nation that had promised them sanctuary. Drawing on meticulous archival research and survivor testimonies, Peter and Leni Gillman chronicle how Winston Churchill's sweeping order — Collar the lot! — unleashed a wave of panic-driven policy that saw enemy aliens, Jewish émigrés, and anti-fascist intellectuals herded behind barbed wire and shipped to distant shores, most infamously aboard the ill-fated troopship Arandora Star. The Gillmans write with the precision of investigative journalists and the moral urgency of historians who understand the stakes of silence, exposing the bureaucratic callousness and xenophobic hysteria that gripped Whitehall in the summer of 1940. Their work sits at a vital intersection of wartime history and civil liberties, forcing a reckoning with the gap between Britain's self-image as a refuge for the persecuted and the reality of its wartime conduct. A deeply unsettling portrait of fear overriding principle, this account leaves the reader questioning just how far any democratic government will go when gripped by the spectre of invasion.