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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Parkin, Parkin Simon
• Publisher: Sceptre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2022
• EAN: 9781529347227
• ISBN: 978-1-5293-4722-7
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 236 mm x 46 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Refugees, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Second World War, Refugees and political asylum, Refugees & Political Asylum