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The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain’s Most Terrifying Prison 

by Nicholas Guyatt

A leading historian reveals the never-before-told story of a doomed British prison and the massacre of its American prisoners of war After the War of 1812, more than five thousand American sailors were marooned in Dartmoor Prison on a barren English plain; the conflict was over but they had been left to rot by their government. Although they shared a common

Publisher

Basic Books

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781541645660