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brown cloth, dust jacket, xxiii, 397 pages illustrations, index, edge chips and tears to d,j, in protective mylar jacket,CONTENTS: A racehors near Berlin -- November 1914: the first three weeks -- The achievement of solidarity -- Rumours and morale -- The winter of 1914-15 -- Community structure: the barracks -- Ruhleben's families: the boxes -- Physical improvements: physical and mental health -- The first spring and summer -- The explosion of activity -- The organized camp -- The world of sport -- Education, the arts, religion -- Camp roles, leadership, and status -- Lovernment and politics -- Life in the new society -- The long years: 1916 to 1917 -- The end of the Ruhleben story -- Implications: sociological and psychological. "Ruhleben internment camp was a civilian detention camp during World War I. It was located in Ruhleben, then a village 10 km (6.2 mi) to the west of Berlin, now split between the districts of Spandau and Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. The camp was originally a horse racecourse . The camp detainees included male citizens of the Allied Powers living, studying, working or on holiday in Germany at the outbreak of World War I. They also included the crews of several civilian ships stranded in German harbours or captured at sea. There were also quite a number of fishermen captured from trawlers which were sunk in the North Sea in the first days of the war - these were mainly men from Hull, Grimsby and Boston. The camp contained between 4,000 and 5,500 prisoners, most of them British."--Wikipedia. Seller Inventory # 11255958
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