At the outbreak of the Great War, M.C.C. Harrison and H.A. Cartwright were stationed at Mons; soon taken prisoner, the British soldiers were sent to a POW camp in Germany. Posing as guards, the duo escaped but were recaptured and sent to another internment center. Getting home was going to be a lot harder than they imagined, but these resourceful men were up to the task. Asked to document their experiences after they succeeded, Harrison and Cartwright produced this tense narrative; censored during the war, it was published in full in 1930, and it is supplemented here with photos and drawings by the authors.