Love and betrayal on the home front

Unexploded

**By Alison MacLeod**

**Hamish Hamilton, €17**

**Reviewed by Anna Carey**

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One of the nastier ironies of World War II is that when war broke out, the British government detained all adult male "enemy aliens", sending German and Austrian - and later Italian - men to internment camps all over the country.

The problem was that most of the Germanic internees were Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi persecution - more than ...