The London cage : the secret history of Britain's World War II interrogation centre / Helen Fry.
Publisher: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2018Edition: Paperback [edition].Description: ix, 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780300221930; 9780300238655.Other title: Secret history of Britain's World War II interrogation centre.Subject(s): Scotland, Alexander Paterson, 1882-1965 | Military interrogation -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | World War, 1939-1945 -- Military intelligence -- Great Britain | World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- London -- Prisoners and prisons | World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, British | Prisoners of war -- Great Britain | Prisoners of war -- Germany | War criminals -- Germany | World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Great Britain | Military intelligence -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 940.548641Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 940.548641 FRY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 016814 |
Introduction : impounding the evidence -- Genesis of the cage -- A very 'German' Englishman -- Cage characters : the interrogators -- Cage characters : the 'guests' -- Downstairs : interrogation methods -- Prison quarters -- Caged lies : the truth drugs -- The German 'great escape' -- German-Jewish émigrés -- A matter of justice -- Knöchlein : the Butcher of Paradis -- The Sagan case -- Norway and war crimes -- Befriending the field marshal -- Death in the cage -- Torture : myth or reality -- Epilogue : the legacy -- Appendix : Staff at the London cage.