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

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Simon Parkin is an award-winning British writer and journalist. He is a contributing writer for the New Yorker and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS), and is the author of A Game of Birds and Wolves and The Island of Extraordinary Captives, which was a New Yorker Book of the Year and won the Wingate Literary Prize. He lives in West Sussex.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Simon Parkin, Parkin Simon
• Verlag: Sceptre
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 03.02.2022
• EAN: 9781529347227
• ISBN: 978-1-5293-4722-7
• Seiten: 496
• Abmessung: 168 mm x 236 mm x 46 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Second World War, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum