fraeon
Films
BrowseTop 250
Series
TV ShowsAnimeTop 250 TVTop 100 Anime
Games
BrowseTop 100
Books
BooksMangaTop 125 BooksTop 100 Manga
For youTrendingTier ListsThe ArchiveLeaderboard
Log inSign up free
fraeon

Everything you watch, play and read — tracked, rated and remembered in one library.

Explore

  • Films
  • TV
  • Anime
  • Games
  • Books
  • Manga

Discover

  • Trending
  • Leaderboard
  • Find people
  • Lists
  • Tier lists

Company

  • Tour
  • About
  • Community guidelines
  • Privacy
  • Terms
  • Contact

© 2026 fraeon. All rights reserved. ·

Metadata from TMDB, RAWG, Jikan & Open Library. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

Questions or ideas? mehmet@avortas.com

HomeFeedProfile
Barbed Wire

Barbed Wire

by Olivier Razac, Jonathan Kneight

Concentration campsWire obstaclesBarbed wirePolitical aspectsWire fencing
0.0
Open Library
Open Library

About this book

"No less than the internal combustion engine, the transistor, or the silicon chip, barbed wire is the quintessentially modern invention. Cheap and mass produced, it accomplished what no other product did before, or has since done so effectively: the control of space. Few technologies did more to usher in the hallmarks of the modern era: the harnessing of nature, brutal mass warfare, political conquest and repression, and genocide.". "With this work of history - illustrated with rare photographs from European and American archives - Olivier Razac uncovers the hidden history of barbed wire." "In a narrative that spans the history of the American frontier, the trenches of World War I, the Holocaust and beyond, Barbed Wire looks unflinchingly at a central and fascinating thread of modern life."--BOOK JACKET.

Themes & subjects

Concentration campsWire obstaclesBarbed wirePolitical aspectsWire fencingHistory

Authors

Olivier Razac, Jonathan Kneight

Pages

132

Read time

≈ 3h

Editions

3

Language

English

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN

9781565848122

Where to buy

TR
Amazon Bookshop

Reviews

No reviews yet — be the first to write one from the Log screen.

Quotes

No quotes yet.

Discussions

Across media

The same story in other forms.

the film

Barbed Wire

Similar books

Один день Ивана Денисовича

Communism · Forced labor

Один день Ивана Денисовича

Александр Солженицын

1960

Se questo è un uomo

Auschwitz (Concentration camp) · World War, 1939-1945

Se questo è un uomo

Primo Levi

1947

... Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen

Nazi concentration camps · psychotherapy

... Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen

Viktor E. Frankl

1946

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Teen & Young Adult Fiction · Teen & Young Adult Historical Fiction

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

John Boyne

2006

Архипелаг ГУЛАГ

Political prisoners · Concentration camps

Архипелаг ГУЛАГ

Александр Солженицын

1970

Enormous Room

Fiction, biographical · American fiction (fictional works by one author)

Enormous Room

E. E. Cummings

1949

The Odessa file

Concentration camps · Fiction

The Odessa file

Frederick Forsyth

1842

Maus I

New York Times bestseller · nyt:paperback_graphic_books=2011-09-17

Maus I

Art Spiegelman

1986

La Nuit

Holocaust literature · death marches

La Nuit

Elie Wiesel

1955

The Hiding Place

World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, dutch · Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)

The Hiding Place

Corrie ten Boom

1971

La tregua

Biography · German Prisoners and prisons

La tregua

Primo Levi

1963

El Honor del Silencio

Young women · Japanese fiction

El Honor del Silencio

Danielle Steel

1996

The Boys from Brazil

delusions of grandeur · concentration camps

The Boys from Brazil

Ira Levin

1637

Kommandant in Auschwitz

Auschwitz (Concentration camp) · German Prisoners and prisons

Kommandant in Auschwitz

Rudolf Höss

1956

Barbed wire

Barbed wire · Concentration camps

Barbed wire

Reviel Netz

2004

Wire entanglements

Wire obstacles

Wire entanglements

United States Department of War

1918

Instructions on wiring (wire obstacles)

Wire obstacles

Instructions on wiring (wire obstacles)

Army War College (U.S.)

1918

Similar across media

Same mood, other forms — books, series, anime, games and beyond.

Film
Saving Private Ryan

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.

4.1

Saving Private Ryan

1998

Game
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Shooter · Tactical

4.8

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

2015

Film
I Swear

Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, John Davidson navigates his way against the odds through troubled teenage years and into adulthood, finding inspiration in the kindness of others to discover his true purpose in life.

4.1

I Swear

2025

Game
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Adventure

4.5

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

2019

Film
Green Book

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

4.1

Green Book

2018

Game
God of War III

Hack and slash/Beat 'em up · Adventure

4.8

God of War III

2010

Film
Come and See

The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.

4.1

Come and See

1985

Game
Ghost of Tsushima

Role-playing (RPG) · Hack and slash/Beat 'em up

4.6

Ghost of Tsushima

2020

Film
Hacksaw Ridge

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

4.1

Hacksaw Ridge

2016

Game
Assassin's Creed II

Platform · Adventure

4.5

Assassin's Creed II

2009

Film
Das Boot

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.

4.0

Das Boot

1981

Game
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Shooter · Tactical

4.7

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

2008