Peter Fleischmann News Today

Since the time of churchel, the ideologists of imperialism have not ceased to claim that the communists split europe, but the truth is different, it was not the socialist countries that laid the foundation for the political split of europe into two opposing blocs, if anyone in the west has forgotten about this, let me remind you that the warsaw pact with. 6 years after the creation of the aggressive nato bloc. The anthems of the soviet union and the german demon were sung. The task we have now u...

Ian Frazier on the recently deceased editor William Whitworth, who worked at The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, and who could see deep into thorny manuscripts.

The Island of Extraordinary Captives, with photographs, a sketch of the camp and an index, tells this riveting story focused on Hutchinson, one of 10 internment camps on the Isle of Man.

Galician locals showing French interlopers quite how unwelcome they are. Film review by Sebastian Scotney

Let’s be honest: Britain during World War II is well-trod literary territory. I read a lot and I studied in European history in college; I thought I’d learned everything I needed to know about it. But Simon Parkin’s The Island of Extraordinary Captives truly delivers as an untold—or at least under-told—story from this time and place.

In Simon Parkin’s riveting account, a shameful chapter in British history is also a testament to creativity and hope.

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Simon Parkin’s book about so-called ‘enemy aliens’ interned by the British makes for an informative and engaging read, says Nicholas Jacobs

The story of how art and intellect triumphed in Britain’s bleak internment camps for ‘enemy aliens’ on the Isle of Man

Simon Parkin unearths the story of German Jewish refugee Peter Fleischmann, who became a painter while a prisoner in a second world war camp on the Isle of Man