The author was serving in the trenches of Passchendaele with the Dorset Regiment. Captured in the German offensives in March 1918, this book records his experiences as a POW. Waugh was first shipped to a temporary camp at Karlsruhe; and then moved to Mainz on the Rhine. This book records attempts to escape, but is also notable for its unsparing account of the privations of the prisoners, as underfed and permanently hungry, they awaited the end of the war in a Germany that was close to starvation.
Alec Waugh Boeken
Alexander Raban Waugh was een auteur die bekend stond om zijn satirische en vaak controversiële werken, met name in zijn vroege romans die openlijk thema's als homoseksualiteit onder studenten verkenden. Zijn stijl werd gekenmerkt door scherpe observaties van sociale gebruiken en vaak exotische settings voor zijn verhalen. Naast zijn literaire productie experimenteerde Waugh ook met sociale innovaties, waarbij hij naar verluidt de cocktailparty uitvond. Zijn romans behaalden commercieel succes, hoewel hij niet zo wijdverspreid werd geprezen als zijn broer Evelyn. Zijn werk liet een duidelijke stempel achter op de literatuur en daarbuiten.






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