The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal by Simon Parkin

The Island of Extraordinary Captives: A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal

Simon Parkin

475 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo’s moonlit roundups he had narrowly avoided at home in Berlin. Now, having endured a perilous journey to reach England – hiding from the rampaging Naz...

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