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» "Defiant Gardens are gardens created during times of extreme crisis, built behind the trenches of World War I, on both sides of the Western Front; in Jewish ghettos and Nazi concentration camps during World War II; in POW and civilian internment camps of both wars, tended to by prisoners and their captors; in internment camps for Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II; in garrisons, depots and battalion headquarters; in refugee camps; on the hollowed out concavities left behind by the Blitz. They are 'short-lived, their marks on the land quickly obliterated.'"

The book is Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime, by Kenneth Helphand (via br)