Prof. Anne Buckley: Germans on the Run; from Tsingtao to Skipton
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. A year later, five officers escaped individually from the Fukuoka camp with the aim of making their way back to Germany to re-join the war effort.
Anne is Associate Professor 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. She led the translation for the book 'German Prisoners of the Great War. Life in a Yorkshire Camp' which was published in February 2021. She also co-translated Holger Afflerbach's book 'On a Knife Edge: How Germany Lost the First World War'.