Island of Extraordinary Captives (Parkin Simon)(Paperback)

''Extraordinary yet previously untold true story . . . meticulously researched . . . it''s also taut, compelling, and impossible to put down'' Daily Express 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 Nazi thugs at his orphanage, boarding a Kindertransport to safety - here the aspiring artist was, on a ship bound for the Isle of Man, suspected of being a Nazi spy. What had gone wrong?In May 1940,
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