The Prisoners of Mainz - Softcover

Waugh, Alec

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1985736896 ISBN 13: 9781985736894

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

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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About the Author:

Alexander Raban "Alec" Waugh was a British novelist, born in London on the month of July, 1898. He was educated at Sherborne School; the result of his experiences was his first, semi-autobiographical novel, The Loom of Youth (1917), in which he dramatized his schooldays. The Loom of Youth was so controversial at the time for it mentioned homosexual relationships between boys, albeit in a very understated, staid fashion that Waugh remains the only former pupil to be dismissed from the former students society. He served in the army in France in the First World War, being commissioned in the Dorset Regiment in May 1917, and seeing action at Passchendaele. He later had a career as a successful author, although never as successful or innovative as his younger brother; nevertheless, his 1955 novel Island in the Sun was a best-seller. Waugh also merits a mention in the history of reggae music. The success of the movie adaptation of Island in the Sun and the Harry Belafonte title track provided inspiration as well as the name for the successful Island Records record label.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1985736896
• ISBN 13: 9781985736894
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104