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Description: | Privately printed ts edition of his First World War reminiscences (27pp), compiled shortly after the war and originally printed in March 1919, giving an articulate and often humorous account of his experience of the outbreak of war in August 1914 while resident (as a British subject) in Chemnitz, Germany, the varied reactions of German acquaintances to the event and their attitudes towards him, his arrest as an 'enemy alien' and initial confinement in Chemnitz before being transferred to Ruhleben camp near Berlin, describing conditions and notable events in Ruhleben, the effects of the 'November Revolution' of 1918 in the camp and in Berlin generally, and his repatriation to England shortly thereafter.
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 2001-12 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Stibbe, E V | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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