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.
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978-1-5267-6530-7 (9781526765307)
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Anne Buckley is a lecturer in German and Translation Studies in the German Department at the University of Leeds. In addition to her research work on the experiences of German prisoners of war in the UK during the First World War and the legacy of their captivity, she is working with the Craven and the First World War Heritage Lottery Funded project which aims to build a greater understanding of life in Craven during the First World War through public engagement activities.
