Barbed-wire, Barricades & Miss Becker
O'Dell, T G
Against the background of controls and restrictions imposed on Germans and Italians living in the United Kingdom at the start of World War 2, four Anglo-German siblings are taken from their home in London and interned: the girl, Ruby Becker, is sent to the Isle of Man via Holloway Prison and her three brothers to a variety of hastily erected and severely overcrowded, poorly run camps and then onto the ill-fated SS Arandora Star.
Whilst Ruby...