The Ruhleben Prison Camp: A Record of Nineteen Months'' Internment (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Ruhleben Prison Camp: A Record of Nineteen Months'' Internment<br><br>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.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.