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Genre/Form: | Local author Oregon authors History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kenneth I Helphand |
ISBN: | 9781595340214 1595340211 9781595340450 1595340459 |
OCLC Number: | 62804667 |
Awards: | Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award, 2007 |
Description: | xiv, 303 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Contents: | War and gardens -- Trench gardens : the Western Front in World War I -- Ghetto gardens : Nazi Europe, 1939-44 -- Barbed-wire gardens : Allied prisoners of war and civilian internees in Europe and Asia in the world wars -- Stone gardens : Japanese American internment camps, 1942-45 -- Postwar : gardens after the war -- Digging deeper : the spriit of defiant gardens. |
Responsibility: | Kenneth I. Helphand. |
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Abstract:
Examines gardens of war in the twentieth century, including gardens built behind the trenches in World War I, in the ghettos during World War II, and in Japanese-American internment camps in the US, as well as gardens created by soldiers at their bases and encampments during the Gulf War, Vietnam, Korea and the Second World Wars.
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"An incredible and deply moving history of the ways in which soldiers and civilians, often in the most grievous and immiserated circumstances, have created little pockets of horticultural hope throughout the twentieth century... The photographs alone are extraordinary, but the chronicles of imaginative resistance are almost beyond belief. (New Statesman) Read more...

