'From Tsingtao to Skipton by Anne Buckley'

This month's speaker is Anne Buckley and it is her second visit to our branch.

Anne will recount the little-known escape story of two German POWs from Fukuoka in 1915 in which they spent a year on the run and almost circumnavigated the globe. The men were two of the 4,700 Germans taken prisoner by the Japanese following the Siege of Tsingtao in November 1914

Anne is a lecturer in German and Translation Studies in the German Department at the University of Leeds. Her research focuses on the Great War training and POW camp in Skipton.