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100 1 _aKnox, Marcus
245 1 4 _aThe silent Baltic
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-24
508 _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)
520 _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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cLondon: Academy Architecture, 1914
653 _aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78033
999 _c118753
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