Differing versions: official accounts and published accounts of being taken prisoner in the Great War

At the end of the 1914–18 war British officers who had been taken prisoner were required on repatriation to hand in an explanation of the circumstances of their capture. A number of them subsequently wrote up their experiences as Prisoners of War for publication, enabling one to make a comparison of their official explanations, written in a straightforward style suitable for officers reporting to senior officers, and their later published accounts, written in a more individual style for a non‐military readership.