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Time Stood Still: My Internment in England, 1914-1918
Langbeschreibung
A masterpiece of humanism, Time Stood Still recounts Paul Cohen-Portheim's years of internment in England as an enemy alien during World War One. An artist and theatre designer, he at first viewed internment as a sort of holiday: 'Should I bring my bathing things and evening dress?' he asked the policeman taking him prisoner. Though confined in a 'gentleman's camp' near Wakefield, as Cohen-Portheim shows with grace, humour, and deep compassion, even under the best conditions, the simple act of being confined and placed in a sort of limbo is a form of torture: 'Where there is no aim, no object, no sense, there is no time.' Time Stood Still is a passionate but balanced argument against internment and its inherently dehumanizing effects.
Paul Cohen-Portheim was a German-born artist and theatre designer who worked in Berlin, Paris, and London. He was interned as an enemy alien on the Isle of Man and later Lofthouse Park near Wakefield from 1915 to 1918. After the war, he became a journalist and published several travel books, including The Spirit of England and The Spirit of France. He died in 1934.
ISBN-13:
9781915812056
Veröffentl:
2023
Autor:
Paul Cohen-Portheim
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
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