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John Stanley Cameron
A sea captain’s firsthand account turned into a vivid World War I memoir, remembered for its gripping story of capture and survival aboard the German raider Wolf. Little is widely documented about the writer himself, which gives the book an added sense of immediacy and mystery.
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Ten months in a German raider : a prisoner of war aboard the Wolf
by John Stanley Cameron
About the author
John Stanley Cameron is known for Ten Months in a German Raider: A Prisoner of War Aboard the Wolf (1918), a memoir based on his experiences at sea during World War I. Contemporary source material for the book describes him as Captain John Stanley Cameron, master of the American bark Beluga.
The introduction to the Project Gutenberg edition says he was of Scotch parentage and was thirty-four years old at the time his story was presented in print. That same source portrays him as a practical seaman shaped by life before the mast, which fits the direct, eyewitness quality of his writing.
Reliable biographical details beyond his maritime career and this book are scarce in the sources I could confirm. For readers, that often makes his work stand out even more: the focus stays on the ordeal itself, and on the voice of a captain telling what he lived through.