Report on the Transport of British Prisoners of War to Germany. August-December, 1914
Title | Report on the Transport of British Prisoners of War to Germany. August-December, 1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Government Committee on Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War |
Publisher | |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Prisoners of war |
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"This report is based on the statements of forty-eight British officers and seventy-seven N.C.O.'s and men, captured at different times between the outbreak of the war and the end of 1914. Their statements, in so far as they relate to the matter of the report, are quoted at length in the appendices."--Page [2].
Report on the transport of British prisoners of war to Germany. August-December 1914.
Title | Report on the transport of British prisoners of war to Germany. August-December 1914. PDF eBook |
Author | [Anonymus AC10243001] |
Publisher | |
Pages | 53 |
Release | 1918 |
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Report on the Transport of British Prisoners of War to Germany. August-December, 1914
Title | Report on the Transport of British Prisoners of War to Germany. August-December, 1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Government Committee on Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War |
Publisher | |
Pages | 53 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN |
"This report is based on the statements of forty-eight British officers and seventy-seven N.C.O.'s and men, captured at different times between the outbreak of the war and the end of 1914. Their statements, in so far as they relate to the matter of the report, are quoted at length in the appendices."--p. [2].
Report on the Transport of British Prisoners of War to Germany ...
Title | Report on the Transport of British Prisoners of War to Germany ... PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain. Foreign Office |
Publisher | |
Pages | 53 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN |
Report on the Transport of British Prisonners of War to Germany
Title | Report on the Transport of British Prisonners of War to Germany PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 53 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The War Behind the Wire
Title | The War Behind the Wire PDF eBook |
Author | John Lewis-Stempel |
Publisher | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2014-01-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0297869256 |
The last untold story of the First World War: the fortunes and fates of 170,000 British soldiers captured by the enemy. On capture, British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans 'For you the war is over'. Nothing could be further from the truth. British Prisoners of War merely exchanged one barbed-wire battleground for another. In the camps the war was eternal. There was the war against the German military, fought with everything from taunting humour to outright sabotage, with a literal spanner put in the works of the factories and salt mines prisoners were forced to slave in. British PoWs also fought a valiant war against the conditions in which they were mired. They battled starvation, disease, Prussian cruelties, boredom, and their own inner demons. And, of course, they escaped. Then escaped again. No less than 29 officers at Holzminden camp in 1918 burrowed their way out via a tunnel (dug with a chisel and trowel) in the Great Escape of the Great War. It was war with heart-breaking consequences: more than 12,000 PoWs died, many of them murdered, to be buried in shallow unmarked graves. Using contemporary records - from prisoners' diaries to letters home to poetry - John Lewis-Stempel reveals the death, life and, above all, the glory of Britain's warriors behind the wire. For it was in the PoW camps, far from the blasted trenches, that the true spirit of the Tommy was exemplified.
British Prisoners of War in First World War Germany
Title | British Prisoners of War in First World War Germany PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Wilkinson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2017-04-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107199425 |
An original investigation dedicated to the captivity experiences of British military servicemen captured by Germany in the First World War.