One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps

Over 100 years, concentration camps have existed on Earth, evolving from battlefield strategy to tools for civilian relocation and political repression. Andrea Pitzer's book reveals the chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps, from 1890s Cuba to the Soviet Gulag and detention camps in China and North Korea. It explores the roots of this phenomenon, the toll it has taken, and the extraordinary survivors and intimate moments that have been part of camp life.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 496 pages
\n Publication date: 13 December 2018
\n Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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For over a century, at least one concentration camp has existed on Earth. Initially used as a battlefield strategy, these camps have evolved with each passing decade, in terms of their scope and the brutal practicality with which governments have employed them. Even in the twenty-first century, as we continue to grapple with the magnitude and horror of the Holocaust, history reminds us that we have broken our solemn promise of never again.

In this groundbreaking work, based on archival records and interviews conducted during travels to four continents, Andrea Pitzer unveils the chronological and geopolitical history of concentration camps for the first time. Beginning with the 1890s in Cuba, she identifies concentration camps across the world and across decades. From the Philippines and Southern Africa in the early twentieth century to the Soviet Gulag and detention camps in China and North Korea during the Cold War, camp systems have been used as tools for civilian relocation and political repression. Often justified as a measure to protect a nation or even the interned groups themselves, camps have instead served as brutal and dehumanizing sites that have claimed the lives of millions.

Drawing from exclusive testimony, landmark historical scholarship, and stunning research, Andrea Pitzer unearths the roots of this appalling phenomenon, exploring and exposing the staggering toll of the camps: our greatest atrocities, the extraordinary survivors, and even the intimate, quiet moments that have also been part of camp life during the past century.

\n Weight: 434g\n
Dimension: 209 x 148 x 34 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780316303569\n \n