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.

Parkin’s account of the experiences of the internees is vivid and moving. The narrative sometimes becomes confusing, as he leapfrogs from one episode to another, but his book spotlights a sorry aspect of Britain’s war that deserves to be better known..

brings to light a truly extraordinary example of humanity at its best and worst in a country at war, sometimes with itself.

Parkin illuminates the long ignored injustices of Britain’s World War II concentration camp policies by focusing on some of the prominent individuals confined at Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man.

Vivid.

Richly detailed.