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The island of extraordinary captives / Simon Parkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parkin, Simon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Midgley, Peter, 1921-1991.
- Midgley, Peter.
- Hutchinson Internment Camp (Douglas, Isle of Man)--History.
- Hutchinson Internment Camp (Douglas, Isle of Man).
- Jewish refugees--Great Britain--Biography.
- Jewish refugees.
- Austrians.
- History.
- Noncitizens.
- Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Isle of Man.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Noncitizens--Isle of Man--History--20th century.
- Germans--Great Britain--Forced removal and internment, 1940-1945.
- Germans.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, British.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Austrian.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees.
- Refugees.
- World War, 1939-1945--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945--Evacuation of civilians--Great Britain.
- Germans--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Austrians--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Isle of Man--History--20th century.
- Isle of Man.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 475 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [London, England] : Sceptre, 2022.
- Summary:
- "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, faced with a country gripped by paranoia, Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered the internment of all German and Austrian citizens living in Britain. Most, like Peter, were refugees who had come to the country to escape Nazi oppression. They were now imprisoned by the very country in which they had staked their trust. Painstakingly researched from dozens of unpublished first-hand accounts and previously classified documents, The Island of Extraordinary Captives tells, for the first time, the story of history's most astonishing internment camp and of how a group of world-renown artists, musicians and academics came to be seen as 'enemy aliens'. The Island of Extraordinary Captives is the story of a battle between fear and compassion at a time of national crisis. It reveals how Britain's treatment of refugees during the Second World War led to one of the nation's most shameful missteps, and how hope and creativity can flourish in even the most challenging circumstances"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Barbed-Wire Matinee
- Five Shots
- Fire and Crystal
- The Rescuers
- Sunset Train
- The Basement and the Judge
- Spy Fever
- Nightmare Mill
- The Misted Isle
- The University of Barbed Wire
- The Vigil
- The Suicide Consultancy
- Into the Crucible
- The First Goodbyes
- Love and Paranoia
- The Heiress
- Art and Justice
- Home for Christmas?
- The Isle of Forgotten Men
- A Spy Cornered
- Return to the Mill
- The Final Trial.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781529347227
- 152934722X
- 152934719X
- 9781529347197
- OCLC:
- 1273478187
- Publisher Number:
- 99990438688
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