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German POWs held in England during WWI record their experience in this volume of detailed accounts, diary entries, drawings, and more.
In Munich in 1920, just after the end of the First World War, German prisoners of war in England published a book they had written and smuggled back home. Through vivid text and illustrations, they describe their experience of life in a camp at Skipton in Yorkshire. Their work, now translated into English for the...
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A first-hand account of the underground work of the First World War-from the firing of mines to constructing subways to bureaucratic mishaps.
With a background in mining and tunneling, Major H. R. Dixon was transferred to GHQ in Montreuil to handle mining plans and records. In due course he was appointed to a small group of Royal Engineers' officers who operated as the eyes and ears of the Inspector of Mines. His activity in this role is particularly...
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