German Prisoners of the Great War

Life in the Skipton Camp

Author: Anne Buckley

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Vivid insight into the experience of the soldiers revealed through their own words.

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Vivid insight into the experience of the soldiers revealed through their own words.

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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. AUTHOR: 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 worked with the Craven and the First World War Heritage Lottery Funded project which aimed to build a greater understanding of life in Craven during the First World War through public engagement activities.

Critic Reviews

"...an important contribution to the historiography of World War I."-- "The Great War Society"
"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."-- "Over the Front"

About the Author

EDITORAnne 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 worked with the Craven and the First World War Heritage Lottery Funded project which aimed to build a greater understanding of life in Craven during the First World War through public engagement activities.