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A POW’S MEMOIR OF THE

FIRST WORLD WAR

THE LEGACY OF THE GREAT WAR

A Series sponsored by the Historical de la Grande Guerre Péronne-Somme

General Editor

JAY WINTER

Previously published titles in the series

Antoine Prost

IN THE WA KE OF WAR

‘Les Anciens Combattants’ and French Society

Patrick Fridenson

THE FRENCH HOME FRONT 1914–1918

Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau

MEN AT WAR 1914–1918

Gerald D. Feldman

ARMY, INDUSTRY, AND LABOR IN GERMAN Y 1914–1918

Rosa Maria Bracco

MERCH ANTS OF HOPE

Adrian Gregory

THE SILENCE OF MEMORY

Armistice Day 1919–1946

Ute Daniel

THE WAR FROM WITHIN

German Working-Class Women in the First World War

Annette Becker

WAR AND FAITH

The Religious Imagination in France, 1914–1930

David W. Lloyd

BATTLEFIELD TOURISM

Pilgrimage and the Commemoration of the Great War

in Britain, Australia and Canada, 1919–1939

Alex King

MEMORIALS OF THE GREAT WAR IN BRITA IN

The Symbolism and Politics of Remembrance

Margaret H. Darrow

FRENCH WOMEN AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR

War Stories of the Home Front

Alon Rachamimov

POWS AND THE GREAT WAR

Captivity on the Eastern Front

Antoine Prost

REPUBLICANS IDENTITIES IN WAR AND PEACE

Representations of France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

A POW’S MEMOIR OF THE

FIRST WORLD WAR

The Other Ordeal

GEORGE CONNES

Translated by

Marie-Claire Connes Wrage

Edited by

Lois Davis Vines

Oxford New York

English edition

First published in 2004 by

Berg

Editorial offices:

1st Floor, Angel Court, 81 St Clements Street, Oxford, OX4 1AW, UK

175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA

Originally published in French by

L’Harmattan, Paris, France

No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form

or by any means without the written permission of Berg.

Berg is the imprint of Oxford International Publishers Ltd.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Connes, G. A. (Georges Auguste), 1890–1974.

[Autre épreuve. English]

A POW’s memoir of the First World War : the other ordeal / Georges

Connes ; translated by Marie-Claire Connes Wrage ; edited by Lois Davis

Vines. — English ed.

p. cm. — (The legacy of the Great War)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1-85973-788-9 (pbk.)

1. Connes, G. A. (Georges Auguste), 1890–1974. 2. World War, 1914–

1918 — Prisoners and prisons, German. 3. Prisoners of war — France —

Biography. 4. Prisoners of war — Germany — Biography. 5. World War,

1914–1918 — Personal narratives, French. I. Vines, Lois. II. Title. III.

Series.

D627.G3C6413 2004

940.4’7243’092 — dc22

2004006121

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 1 85973 738 8 (hardback)

ISBN 1 85973 788 9 (paperback)

Typeset by JS Typesetting Ltd, Wellingborough, Northants.

Printed in the United Kingdom by Biddles Ltd, King’s Lynn.

w w w.bergpublishers.com

Contents

Biographical Notes: Georges Connes

vii

Foreword

Introduction

1 From Verdun to Mainz

2 Mainz: Prison Induction, the ‘Salting Tub’

3 The Citadel at Mainz: Eighteen Months

4 Eastward Bound

5 Poland

6 Revolution

101

Afterword

115

Appendix: The Battle of Verdun

117

Bibliography

119

Index

121

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