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The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A Painter, a Poet, an Heiress, and a Spy in a World War II British Internment Camp
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Author:
Simon Parkin
Publisher:
Scribner
Date:
November 1, 2022
The remarkable untold story of a Jewish orphan who fled Nazi Germany for London, only to be arrested there by the British government and sent to an internment camp for suspected foreign agents on the Isle of Man, alongside a renowned group of refugee musicians, intellectuals, artists, andâpossiblyâgenuine spies.
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A truly shocking story...electrifyingly told by the journalist and historian Simon Parkin, whose breadth and depth of original research has produced an account of cinematic vividness.
Excellent.
Parkin’s rich and vivid account makes clear just how much the displaced artists did suffer, and the remarkable resilience and creativity with which they responded..
Parkin recounts Fleischmann’s experiences in a brisk, vivid narrative which at times leans too heavily on the singularity of the inmates at Hutchinson in making its argument against indiscriminate internment.
