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• This Kindle edition contains Alec Waugh's 1919 classic The Prisoners of Main, describes the author's experiences as a Prisoner of war in Germany during World War I.About the AuthorBritish author Alexander Raban "Alec" Waugh (1898 – 1981), brother of author Evelyn Waugh, was an author, critic and publisher. He was born in London and his first, semi-autobiographical novel, The Loom of Youth (1917), was based partly on his experience at Sherborne School, in Dorset. The book was controversial as it mentioned homosexual relationships between boys. Waugh served in France during World War I. He was captured by the Germans in 1918, and spent time in prisoner-of-war camps in Karlsruhe and in the Mainz Citadel. His work is reminiscent of W. Somerset Maugham, and his 1955 novel Island in the Sun was a best-seller. His work includes:The Loom of Youth (1917)Resentment Poems (1918)The Prisoners of Mainz (1919)Pleasure (1921)Public School Life: Boys, Parents, Masters (1922)The Lonely Unicorn (1922)Myself When Young : confessions (1923)Card Castle (1924)Kept : a story of post-war London (1925)Love In These Days (1926)On Doing What One Likes (1926)Nor Many Waters (1928)The Last Chukka : Stories of East and West (1928)Three Score and Ten (1929)"...'Sir,' She Said" (1930)The Coloured Countries (1930)Hot Countries (1930), with woodcuts by Lynd WardMost Women (1931)So Lovers Dream (1931)Leap Before You Look (1932)No Quarter (book)|No Quarter (1932)Thirteen Such Years (1932)Wheels Within Wheels (1933)The Balliols (1934)Jill Somerset (1936)Eight Short Stories (1937)Going Their Own Ways (1938)No Truce With Time (1941)His Second War (1944)The Sunlit Caribbean (1948)These Would I Choose (1948)Unclouded Summer (1948)The Sugar Islands: a Caribbean travelogue (1949)The Lipton Story (1950)Where the Clocks Chime Twice (, 1898-1981)

Originally published in 1919, The Prisoners of Mainz is a narrative account of the author. It conains the author's experiences as a prisoner of in Germany, together with this volume's illustrator, during the first world war. 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.

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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.

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