German Prisoners of the Great War - Life in the Skipton Camp (Hardcover)

In Munich in 1920, just after the end of the First World War, German officers who had been prisoners of war in England published a book they had written and smuggled back to Germany. Through vivid text and illustrations they describe in detail their experience of life in captivity in a camp at Skipton in Yorkshire. Their work, now translated into English for the first time, gives us a unique insight into their feelings about the war, their captors and their longing to go home. In their own words they record the conditions, the daily routines, the food, their relationship with the prison authorities, their activities and entertainments, and their thoughts of their homeland. The challenges and privations they faced are part of their story, as is the community they created within the confines of the camp. The whole gamut of their existence is portrayed here, in particular through their drawings and cartoons which are reproduced alongside the translation. German Prisoners of the Great War offers us a direct inside of view a hitherto neglected aspect of the wartime experience a century ago.

General

Imprint:	Pen & Sword Military
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2021
Editors:	Anne Buckley
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
ISBN-13:	978-1-5267-6529-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > Prisoners of war Books > History > General
LSN:	1-5267-6529-2
Barcode:	9781526765291

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