Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital - Philip Hoare

Книга "Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital" описывает историю Нетли в Саутгемптоне - ее больницы, людей, а также тайную историю XX века. Эта больница была когда-то самой большой в мире. Раскинувшись на четверть мили вдоль береговой линии Саутгемптон-Уотера, королевская военная больница Ройал Виктория в Нетли была выражением викторианского империализма в миллионе кирпичей красного цвета. Здесь произошло много исторических событий, таких как первое использование женщин в армии, обученных Флоренс Найтингейл, первая вакцина против тифа и первый специально построенный военный психиатрический госпиталь. В больницу Нетли были доставлены раненые солдаты Первой мировой войны, среди них и Уилфред Оуэн, и многие другие страдавшие от душевных расстройств. В книге автор Филип Хоар рассказывает не только об истории здания, но также о своем личном отношении к ней. В новом приложении книги раскрывается потрясающее свидетельство связей Нетли с Портон-Даун и экспериментами с LSD в 1950-х годах. Книга содержит ограниченное количество иллюстраций.

This eBook features a limited number illustrations. A powerful, meticulously researched journey through the tumultuous history of Netley Hospital, its remarkable inhabitants, its secluded chapters, and its complex links to Porton Down and acid warfare experiments in the early 1960s as well as to Moroccan MiG crash sites in the North Atlantic.Based on his comprehensive research of English archives, photographs, hospital records, books, and diaries dating back nearly a thousand years, author Philip Hoare traces the manifold rich and surreal history of this extraordinary hospital at the crossroads of imperial satrapy, scientific discovery, diplomatic and cultural relations, romance and, tragically, tragedy. It reflects the vicissitudes of conflict, anachronism, and change upon serious British public health infrastructure.Amid the eye-opening Georgian amphitheatre of Netley’s Great Hall, sprawled across five acres surrounded by boiling endgame firefights, a young British soldier must grapple daily with post-traumatic stress disorder, imposed sexual identity, puberty, social tape dodging, moral dilemma, and identity crisis, yet also come to grips with one man’s life—a gender nonconforming soul lost and reformed through the brave sea voyage to uncharted Netley sanctuary.

Электронная Книга «Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital» написана автором Philip Hoare в году.

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Язык: Английский

ISBN: 9780007394586

This ebook contains a limited number of illustrations.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.