02256cam a22003013u 4500 78033 UtSlPG 20260610134817.0 m cr n 260607r20261914utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 D501 Knox, Marcus The silent Baltic Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2026 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2026-02-24 Shawn 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) The 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.) Originally published: London: Academy Architecture, 1914 World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78033 118753 118753