Prison

A Symposium

George Mikes

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Routledge
01 October 2025

Second World War; Prisons; Legal history

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Prison and Prisoners

First published in 1963, the original blurb reads: ""This may be a unique generation, which has so widely felt the full range of suffering. It is common in London or New York to spend evenings in the company of people who were prisoners of the Japanese, of Hitler, of the Hungarian Communists – or of their own stress and breakdown. Prison, in some form, is the symbol of it.

This is an attempt to discover what has been learnt of this whole range of prison experience – taking prison to be any form of enforced separation from the world of normal life. Thus there are chapters on mental asylum and hospital, as well as political prison and concentration camp. And the emphasis is on the return rather than the experience. What is the lesson of that time of separation? Having travelled to the end of fear, was it the death of fear – or its exposure? That is the question each author was invited to answer.""

By: George Mikes
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781032565286
ISBN 10: 1032565284
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Prison and Prisoners
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 01 October 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Introduction George Mikes. Children of Auschwitz Eugene Heimler. Assisted by Thugs Paul Ignotus. Surrender, Like Marriage Russell Braddon. A Personal Affair Arthur Koestler. In British Hands Krishna Nehru Hutheesing. Warrant to Nowhere Walter Musgrave. Hospital Sentence Colin Franklin. True Madness Jeremy Bryan. Notes on Contributors.