Ronald Searle is known for documenting, with graphic genius, the brutal camp conditions he endured as a prisoner of the Japanese in the Second World War. He survived and hundreds of his drawings of prisoners dying of cholera survived too. After the war, he served as a courtroom artist at the Nurenberg trials. Refugees 1960 contains drawings from a series he made in European refugee camps. Before being published by Penguin, his drawings first appeared as a seventeen-page feature in Punch in 1959. His wife, Kaye Webb, had experienced war as an ambulance driver, an air raid warden, a canteen worker and a member of the Fleet Street women’s rifle brigade before becoming an editor of Puffin Books in 1961.