The Ruhleben Football Association: How Steve Bloomer's Footballers Survived a First World War Prison Camp

by Paul Brown

In 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War, several of Britain's greatest footballers were interned in a brutal German prison camp at Ruhleben, near Berlin. Among them was Steve Bloomer, the prolific England striker widely regarded as the best player of his generation. Surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards, living in squalor and on meagre rations, and with their families and freedom far out of reach, Bloomer and the others found salvation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 099554123X
• ISBN13: 9780995541238
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Goal-Post
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"