"Collar the Lot!": How Britain Interned and Expelled Its Wartime Refugees

Peter Gillman, Leni Gillman

Quartet Books, 1980 - History - 334 pages

"Collar the lot!"--Churchill's abrupt order, made after Italy declared war, was applied to all 'enemy aliens' in Britain. Most of them were refugees. by July 1940, 27000 had been arrested and thousand deported. When the liner Arandora Star was torpedoed, 800 were drowned

About the author

Peter Gillman is one of Britain's leading mountaineering writers. His articles have appeared in the national press for more than thirty years and he has a dozen books to his name, including Eiger Direct and his acclaimed Everest anthology. In 1992 he saw Everest with his wife on a journey through Tibet, retracing the steps of Mallory's 1921 reconnaissance expedition. He lives in south London, England.

Bibliographic information

• Title: "Collar the Lot!": How Britain Interned and Expelled Its Wartime Refugees
• Authors: Peter Gillman, Leni Gillman
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Quartet Books, 1980
• ISBN: 0704334089, 9780704334083
• Length: 334 pages
• Subjects: History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater; Social Science / Refugees