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German Prisoners of the Great War: Life in a Yorkshire Camp Kindle Edition
German POWs held in England during WWI record their experience in this volume of detailed accounts, diary entries, drawings, and more.
In Munich in 1920, just after the end of the First World War, German prisoners of war in England published a book they had written and smuggled back home. Through vivid text and illustrations, they describe their experience of life 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 prison camp conditions, daily routines, their relationship with the prison authorities, their activities and entertainment, 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 an inside view of a hitherto neglected aspect of the wartime experience.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPen & Sword Military
- Publication dateApril 28, 2021
- File size30.0 MB
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"The book is recommended highly and faculty members and students of the University of Leeds are to be commended for their worthy efforts to bring the book to fruition."
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- ASIN : B08WRG4BJ1
- Publisher : Pen & Sword Military; Illustrated edition (April 28, 2021)
- Publication date : April 28, 2021
- Language : English
- File size : 30.0 MB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 364 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,030,389 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #398 in Prisoners of War History
- #1,397 in 20th Century History of the UK
- #3,058 in World War I History (Kindle Store)
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- Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2021It was really fascinating to think about German POW's in Britain. I tend to spend a lot of time reading WWII related material, and so I don't often think too much about what things look like from the other side, before the Germans really became famous as captors. This was an eye-opening, if at times a bit acerbic, account of a little remembered history.
A lot of mainstream books tend to glance over this topic without going into much detail, and I appreciated that this book really went into a greater depth describing these events. The research that went into this was obviously extensive and the writing was good and had an easy to follow flow.
I liked that there were stories about individual people as well as an overall history of how these men came to be where they were. I thought the author did a good job of bringing the reader a clear picture of life in a British POW camp and allowing us to experience the sights and sounds of years gone by.
I would definitely recommend this book to anyone interested in WWI and the lesser covered topics that often escape popular view.
This review is based on a complimentary copy from the publisher, Provided through NetGalley. All opinions are my own.
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- Tom Ellis "Anselm"Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 28, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
I waited a long time for this book to be published. It was well worth that wait. A terrific addition to the history of WW1. The memoirs of the captured German Officers imprisoned at Skipton are both revealing and extremely readable. Congratulations to the team of translators who must have worked so hard to make this work available.
And many thanks to the families of the German prisoners who allowed it to be published. A great informative read !