02227cam a22002893u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000090010610000170011524500220013226400510015430000470020533600260025233700260027833800360030450000310034050801750037152012380054653400620178465300480184685600430189478033UtSlPG20260610134817.0mcr n260607r20261914utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aD5011 aKnox, Marcus14aThe silent Baltic 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-02-24  aShawn Carraher and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  aThe silent Baltic by Marcus Knox is a first-person wartime memoir and travel narrative written in the early 20th century. It follows an English visitor stranded in Holstein near Kiel at the outbreak of World War I, tracing her detention amid mobilization and suspicion, and her effort to reach safety.

The book opens with idyllic summer scenes in a small Baltic town that are abruptly replaced by mobilization, censorship, and fear. Staying at a vicarage, the narrator watches soldiers depart, hears patriotic songs and propaganda, endures anti-British sentiment, and lives under restrictions that forbid even walking by the shore. She observes food hoarding, Red Cross preparations, and the town’s tense vigilance against spies, while meeting another English family under guard. After weeks of isolation, she goes to Hamburg to seek papers, then undertakes a difficult, largely solitary journey by train through Lübeck and Osnabrück, passing rigorous inspections at Bentheim and Oldenzaal, with scarce food and help from a few kind officials. Crossing into the Netherlands brings relief; from Rotterdam she reaches England, closing with a grateful reflection on freedom and home. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: Academy Architecture, 1914  aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78033