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.
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