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Making Gardens in Wartime
Trinity University Press
May 2006
304 pages
ISBN: 1595340211
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Historical
Why 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.
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