A Nissen hut is a prefabricated steel structure made from a half-cylindrical skin of corrugated steel design during World War I, a variant of which (the Quonset hut) was used extensively during World War II.
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“There is hardly a pioneer’s hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)