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

Simon Parkin

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 s...