Eric A. Keith

Eric A. Keith is known for My Escape from Germany, a World War I memoir published in the early twentieth century. The book recounts his experience as a British civilian prisoner in Germany and follows his attempts to win back his freedom.

Because reliable biographical information about him is limited in the sources available here, most of what can be confirmed centers on that book rather than on his wider life. What stands out is the directness of his storytelling: the memoir has endured as a personal, on-the-ground view of wartime imprisonment and escape.

For readers interested in first-person history, his work offers something especially compelling—a survival story told by someone who lived it.