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Spike Island

- The Memory of a Military Hospital
Af: Philip Hoare Engelsk Paperback

Spike Island

- The Memory of a Military Hospital
Af: Philip Hoare Engelsk Paperback
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The story of Netley in Southampton – its hospital, its people and the secret history of the 20th-century. Now with a new afterword uncovering astonishing evidence of Netley''s links with Porton Down & experiments with LSD in the 1950s.It was the biggest hospital ever built. Stretching for a quarter of a mile along the banks of Southampton Water, the Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley was an expression of Victorian imperialism in a million red bricks, a sprawling behemoth so vast that when the Americans took it over in World War II, GIs drove their jeeps down its corridors. Born out of the bloody mess of the Crimean War, it would see the first women serving in the military, trained by Florence Nightingale; the first vaccine for typhoid; and the first purpos- built military asylum. Here Wilfred Owen would be brought along with countless other shell-shocked victims of World War I – captured on film, their tremulous ghosts still haunted the asylum a generation later. In Spike Island, Philip Hoare has written a biography of a building. In the process he deals with his own past, and his own relationship to its history.
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The story of Netley in Southampton – its hospital, its people and the secret history of the 20th-century. Now with a new afterword uncovering astonishing evidence of Netley''s links with Porton Down & experiments with LSD in the 1950s.It was the biggest hospital ever built. Stretching for a quarter of a mile along the banks of Southampton Water, the Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley was an expression of Victorian imperialism in a million red bricks, a sprawling behemoth so vast that when the Americans took it over in World War II, GIs drove their jeeps down its corridors. Born out of the bloody mess of the Crimean War, it would see the first women serving in the military, trained by Florence Nightingale; the first vaccine for typhoid; and the first purpos- built military asylum. Here Wilfred Owen would be brought along with countless other shell-shocked victims of World War I – captured on film, their tremulous ghosts still haunted the asylum a generation later. In Spike Island, Philip Hoare has written a biography of a building. In the process he deals with his own past, and his own relationship to its history.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 432
ISBN-13: 9781841152943
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1841152943
Kategori: South & South East England
Udg. Dato: 4 mar 2002
Længde: 29mm
Bredde: 131mm
Højde: 197mm
Forlag: HarperCollins Publishers
Oplagsdato: 4 mar 2002
Forfatter(e): Philip Hoare
Forfatter(e) Philip Hoare

Kategori South & South East England

ISBN-13 9781841152943

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 432

Udgave

Længde 29mm

Bredde 131mm

Højde 197mm

Udg. Dato 4 mar 2002

Oplagsdato 4 mar 2002

Forlag HarperCollins Publishers

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