Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in WartimeWhy is it that in the midst of a war, one can still find gardens? In the most brutal environments, both stateside and on the battlefield, they continue to flourish. Wartime gardens are dramatic examples of what Kenneth I. Helphand calls "defiant gardens" -- gardens created in extreme social, political, economic, or cultural conditions. Illustrated with archival photos, this remarkable book examines gardens of war in the 20th century, including gardens built behind the trenches in World War I, in the Warsaw and other ghettos during World War II, and in Japanese-American internment camps, as well as gardens created by soldiers at their bases and encampments during wars in the Persian Gulf, Vietnam, and Korea. Proving that gardens are far more than peaceful respites from the outside world, Defiant Gardens is a thought-provoking analysis of why people create natural spaces. |
Contents
ONE War and Gardens I | 1 |
The Western Front in World War I | 21 |
Nazi Europe 193944 | 60 |
Copyright | |
3 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
activity Agnes Newton Keith agriculture barbed wire barracks battlefield beauty became block Blunden British cemetery Changi civilian created cultural death defiant gardens desert Diary earth Elizabeth Vaughan environment experience Farewell to Manzanar fence fields flowers German Ghetto Fighters Gila grass green ground grow Holocaust Holocaust Memorial Museum hope human Imperial War Museum imprisoned internees internment camps Israel Japanese American Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Jewish Jews Kleinkopf Kovno ghetto labor land landscape living Lodz Ghetto Manzanar memoir Minidoka nature Nazis no-man's-land noted offered Park planted plots pond POW camps Press Prison Camp Prisoner of War quoted Relocation residents Ringelblum rock Ruhleben Santo Tomas seeds Sierakowiak soil soldiers Somme spring Stalag Luft stones Street survival survivor Tamura tion Topaz Toporol trees Univ Vaughan vegetable gardens Warsaw ghetto Warsaw ghetto uprising wartime Western Front World World War II wrote York