Simon Parkin brings the shameful history of British internment camps during World War II to life in The Island of Extraordinary Captives.
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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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