May 9, 2003
Fencing With the Devil
A scholar in Australia untangles the history of barbed wireA few years ago, while watching a television documentary about war, Alan Krell was struck by the ubiquity of barbed wire.
That took him back to his childhood in the 1950s in what was then Southern Rhodesia, "jumping over the wire and getting my legs caught in it." Then to the time he spent in South Africa, where barbed wire was a vicious tool of apartheid. And to the 3,500 miles of "dog fence" or "border fence" in
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