Simon Parkin brings the shameful history of British internment camps during World War II to life in The Island of Extraordinary Captives.
Scribner
9781982178529
Scribner
9781982178529
Simon Parkin brings the shameful history of British internment camps during World War II to life in The Island of Extraordinary Captives.
When award-winning British journalist Simon Parkin (A Game of Birds and Wolves) dug through the National Archives in London looking for a story idea, he literally found one: A newspaper called The Camp was mistakenly folded between some pages. Produced by German and Austrian internees at a camp for “enemy aliens”…
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