The silent Baltic
- Downloads
- Under 100
- Pages
- 20
About this book
A holiday with German friends turns into an anxious wait for news when war breaks out in 1914. Staying at a vicarage in Neustadt, near Kiel, an English visitor watches the familiar rhythms of a Baltic town give way to crowded trains, military patrols and families parting. Marcus Knox presents this personal account from experiences supplied by a woman who found herself detained for six weeks, with travel disrupted and communication with home increasingly uncertain.
The account pays close attention to the pressures on daily life: restrictions on walking beside the sea, a bank's refusal to accept English money, and strained conversations around the dinner table. Sympathy for German families sits alongside the narrator's frustration at hostility towards England.
About the author
More from this genre
See all- D The DardanellesThe Dardanelles
- T The Two Maps of Europe, and Some Other Aspects of the Great WarThe Two Maps of Europe, and Some Other Aspects of the Great War
- F The Flaming Sword in Serbia and ElsewhereThe Flaming Sword in Serbia and Elsewhere
- F The FledglingThe Fledgling
- H Hacking Through BelgiumHacking Through Belgium
- W The Way of the AirThe Way of the Air
Books like this one
Discussion
No comments yet. Share a thought, a question or a favourite passage.
Copyright concern? Read our DMCA policy
Read or download
Public domain book This work is in the public domain and free of copyright. Anyone may read, download and share it.
- EPUB 31 KB
-
KINDLE Send to Kindle Send
- Download the EPUB file to this device.
- Open Amazon's Send to Kindle page, sign in, and add the file. Open Send to Kindle (opens in a new tab)
On a phone: open the downloaded EPUB and share it to the Kindle app.
You can also email the file to your Kindle address (it ends in @kindle.com) from an email address you approved in your Amazon account.
- PDF 203 KB
Downloads start right away. How to open EPUB on your phone
Book facts
- Author
- Marcus Knox
- Reading time
- About 40 minutes
- Pages
- 20
- Language
- English
- Genre
- World War I History
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online