Internment camp for 'enemy aliens', Newbury, First World War, 1914-1918, (1933). 'The problem of housing interned enemy aliens became acute chiefly because every suitable open space was required for the training of the new army... Newbury racecourse was turned into a concentration camp'. From "The Pageant of the Century". [Odhams Press Ltd, 1933]
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