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

In 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War, several of Britain's greatest footballers were interned in a brutal prison camp at Ruhleben, near Berlin. Surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards, living in squalor and on meagre rations, and with their families and freedom far away, they found salvation in what they knew best - football.

• | Author: Paul Brown
• | Publisher: Goal Post
• | Publication Date: February 20, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 302 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 099554123X
• | ISBN-13: 9780995541238