Differing versions: official accounts and published accounts of being taken prisoner in the Great War.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Harvey, A. D.
- Source
- Critical Quarterly. Jul2018, Vol. 60 Issue 2, p127-139. 13p.
- Subject
- *PRISONERS of war
*PRISONERS of war in literature
*MILITARY personnel
*MILITARY records
- Language
- ISSN
- 0011-1562
This article presents British army officers' accounts of being taken prisoners of war (PoW) during the First World War. It discusses the collection and confirmation of these accounts by the War Office, the capture of Major William Gerald West by the Germans, discrepancies between the prisoners' accounts and those preserved in the War Office records, and the reason of ex-PoW James Whale for publishing a brief account of his capture compared to the one he sent to the War Office.