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A gripping untold war story using exclusive new archive material letters and diaries this is the story of the prisoners of war in internment camps during the Second World War
The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours It reminded the teenager of the Gestapos moonlit roundups he had narrowly avoided at home in Berlin Now having endured a perilous journey to reach England hiding from the rampaging Nazi thugs at his orphanage boarding a Kindertransport to safety here the aspiring artist was on a ship bound for the Isle of Man suspected of being a Nazi spy What had gone wrong
In May 1940 faced with a country gripped by paranoia Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered the internment of all German and Austrian citizens living in Britain Most like Peter were refugees who had come to the country to escape Nazi oppression They were now imprisoned by the very country in which they had staked their trust
Painstakingly researched from dozens of unpublished firsthand accounts and previously classified documents The Island of Extraordinary Captives tells for the first time the story of historys most astonishing internment camp and of how a group of worldrenown artists musicians and academics came to be seen as enemy aliens
The Island of Extraordinary Captives is the story of a battle between fear and compassion at a time of national crisis It reveals how Britains treatment of refugees during the Second World War led to one of the nations most shameful missteps and how hope and creativity can flourish in even the most challenging circumstances
P 2022 Hodder amp Stoughton Limited
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