War Prisoners' Aid Book Forwarding Department

Notes:

World Alliance secretaries prepare books for shipment to prisoners of war in Allied and Central Power prison camps from the Geneva headquarters. Prisoners could request books, usually Scriptures or religious tracts, directly from the World's Alliance. Rudolf Horner directed the Book Forwarding Department for the World's Alliance.

Date Created:

1917-01-01T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Western Michigan University. Libraries

Subject Topic:

Germany, Education, YMCA, WPA, Worlds' Alliance, Reading, Traveling Library, Rudolf Horner, World War 1914-1918, Diplomatic History, European History, Military History, and Political History

Rights:

No Copyright - United States. Physical ownership of materials: World’s Alliance of Young Men’s Christian Associations. International Yearbook 1920. Geneva: World’s Alliance of Young Men’s Christian Associations, 1920, 33.

URL:

https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/wwi_pow_camps/248