Author: Israel Cohen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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The Ruhleben Prison Camp
Author: Israel Cohen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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The Ruhleben Prison Camp
Author: Israel Cohen
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266891147
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Excerpt from The Ruhleben Prison Camp: A Record of Nineteen Months' Internment The Ruhleben Camp is. Only one of about a hundred and fifty prisoners of war camps in Germany, but its name is probably the most widely known on this side of the North Sea, owing to its being the camp in which all British civilians of military age in the German Empire are concentrated, and to the frequency with which its affairs have engaged the attention of both Houses of Parliament in this country. I was interned there for nineteen months, from November 6, 1914, unto June 6, 1916. Previous to my internment I was imprisoned for a few days in September, 1914, solely on the ground of my being a British subject, in the Stadtvogtei Gefangnis, Berlin. On the day of my removal to Ruhleben I was again locked up for a few hours in that same jail, which served as a collecting-station, and five months later I was lodged within its walls for the third and longest period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266891147
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Excerpt from The Ruhleben Prison Camp: A Record of Nineteen Months' Internment The Ruhleben Camp is. Only one of about a hundred and fifty prisoners of war camps in Germany, but its name is probably the most widely known on this side of the North Sea, owing to its being the camp in which all British civilians of military age in the German Empire are concentrated, and to the frequency with which its affairs have engaged the attention of both Houses of Parliament in this country. I was interned there for nineteen months, from November 6, 1914, unto June 6, 1916. Previous to my internment I was imprisoned for a few days in September, 1914, solely on the ground of my being a British subject, in the Stadtvogtei Gefangnis, Berlin. On the day of my removal to Ruhleben I was again locked up for a few hours in that same jail, which served as a collecting-station, and five months later I was lodged within its walls for the third and longest period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Ruhleben
Author: J. Davidson Ketchum
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487537859
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
This is an unusual book in that it is an important contribution to social psychology and also an absorbing story of four strange years in a German prison camp of World War I. Four thousand men and boys from the most varied walks of life—professors, seamen, jockeys, schoolboys, bank directors, musicians, clerks, scientists—were taken from civilian life and placed in Ruhleben on the outbreak of war; no activities were prescribed for them, no direction was given to their communal life. In the event, this miscellaneous group of people, closed off from the world, create d their own society. This book is the story of how they did it and what the society they made was like; much more than this, the camp provides a gifted and sympathetic social psychologist with a rare opportunity for study and analysis of an important if inadvertent social experiment. The time elapsed between the event itself and the completion of the book may in one way be regretted; it did, however, allow the author, who was himself and inmate of Ruhleben, the opportunity for mature reflection on its meaning. The book is a contribution to the history of World War I; it is also a basic and timeless study of the dynamics of individual and group behaviour.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487537859
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 613
Book Description
This is an unusual book in that it is an important contribution to social psychology and also an absorbing story of four strange years in a German prison camp of World War I. Four thousand men and boys from the most varied walks of life—professors, seamen, jockeys, schoolboys, bank directors, musicians, clerks, scientists—were taken from civilian life and placed in Ruhleben on the outbreak of war; no activities were prescribed for them, no direction was given to their communal life. In the event, this miscellaneous group of people, closed off from the world, create d their own society. This book is the story of how they did it and what the society they made was like; much more than this, the camp provides a gifted and sympathetic social psychologist with a rare opportunity for study and analysis of an important if inadvertent social experiment. The time elapsed between the event itself and the completion of the book may in one way be regretted; it did, however, allow the author, who was himself and inmate of Ruhleben, the opportunity for mature reflection on its meaning. The book is a contribution to the history of World War I; it is also a basic and timeless study of the dynamics of individual and group behaviour.
Defiant Gardens
Author: Kenneth I. Helphand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A history of wartime gardens documents how they humanize landscapes and experience, even under the direst conditions
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A history of wartime gardens documents how they humanize landscapes and experience, even under the direst conditions
Barbed Wire Disease
Author: Adolf Lucas Vischer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nervous system
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nervous system
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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My Four Years in Germany
Author: James W. Gerard
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
"My Four Years in Germany" by James W. Gerard James Watson Gerard III was a United States lawyer, diplomat, and justice of the New York Supreme Court. His work brought him around the globe, including a lengthy stay in Germany. Set during World War I, the book showcases how the country changed during the conflict and how the ways of life were affected in all aspects. This book continues to give a fascinating first-hand view of a non-German during one of the most important parts of recent history.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
"My Four Years in Germany" by James W. Gerard James Watson Gerard III was a United States lawyer, diplomat, and justice of the New York Supreme Court. His work brought him around the globe, including a lengthy stay in Germany. Set during World War I, the book showcases how the country changed during the conflict and how the ways of life were affected in all aspects. This book continues to give a fascinating first-hand view of a non-German during one of the most important parts of recent history.
Oldcastle Camp 1914-1918
Author: Tom French
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781900923330
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 183
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781900923330
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 183
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The German Defense Of Berlin
Author: Oberst a.D. Wilhem Willemar
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786251469
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Often written during imprisonment in Allied War camps by former German officers, with their memories of the World War fresh in their minds, The Foreign Military Studies series offers rare glimpses into the Third Reich. In this study Oberst a.D. Wilhem Willemar discusses his recollections of the climatic battle for Berlin from within the Wehrmacht. “No cohesive, over-all plan for the defense of Berlin was ever actually prepared. All that existed was the stubborn determination of Hitler to defend the capital of the Reich. Circumstances were such that he gave no thought to defending the city until it was much too late for any kind of advance planning. Thus the city’s defense was characterized only by a mass of improvisations. These reveal a state of total confusion in which the pressure of the enemy, the organizational chaos on the German side, and the catastrophic shortage of human and material resources for the defense combined with disastrous effect. “The author describes these conditions in a clear, accurate report which I rate very highly. He goes beyond the more narrow concept of planning and offers the first German account of the defense of Berlin to be based upon thorough research. I attach great importance to this study from the standpoint of military history and concur with the military opinions expressed by the author.”-Foreword by Generaloberst a.D. Franz Halder.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786251469
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Often written during imprisonment in Allied War camps by former German officers, with their memories of the World War fresh in their minds, The Foreign Military Studies series offers rare glimpses into the Third Reich. In this study Oberst a.D. Wilhem Willemar discusses his recollections of the climatic battle for Berlin from within the Wehrmacht. “No cohesive, over-all plan for the defense of Berlin was ever actually prepared. All that existed was the stubborn determination of Hitler to defend the capital of the Reich. Circumstances were such that he gave no thought to defending the city until it was much too late for any kind of advance planning. Thus the city’s defense was characterized only by a mass of improvisations. These reveal a state of total confusion in which the pressure of the enemy, the organizational chaos on the German side, and the catastrophic shortage of human and material resources for the defense combined with disastrous effect. “The author describes these conditions in a clear, accurate report which I rate very highly. He goes beyond the more narrow concept of planning and offers the first German account of the defense of Berlin to be based upon thorough research. I attach great importance to this study from the standpoint of military history and concur with the military opinions expressed by the author.”-Foreword by Generaloberst a.D. Franz Halder.
Interned in Germany
Author: Henry Charles Mahoney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ruhleben Prison Camp
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ruhleben Prison Camp
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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The History of Ruhleben
Author: Joseph Powell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political prisoners
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political prisoners
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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