The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp - Hardcover
by Simon Parkin
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9781982178529ISBN-10:1982178523UPC:9781982178529Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Modern, Wars & Conflicts, EuropeBook Topic:20th Century, World War II, Great BritainSize:9.10 x 6.40 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.5521Product ID:SCWGH308P0
The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
The "riveting...truly shocking" (The New York Times Book Review) story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested and sent to a British internment camp for suspected foreign agents on the Isle of Man, alongside a renowned group of refugee musicians, intellectuals, artists, and--possibly--genuine spies. Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Scribner Book CompanyISBN-13:9781982178529ISBN-10:1982178523UPC:9781982178529Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Modern, Wars & Conflicts, EuropeBook Topic:20th Century, World War II, Great BritainSize:9.10 x 6.40 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.5521Product ID:SCWGH308P0
Simon Parkin is an award-winning British journalist and author. A contributing writer for The New Yorker, he has also written for The Guardian, The Observer, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, New Statesmen, the BBC, and other publications. He is the author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives (winner of the Wingate Literary Prize), A Game of Birds and Wolves, and Death by Video Game, and...
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