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John Stanley Cameron
A mariner turned memoirist, he is remembered for a vivid firsthand account of captivity aboard a German commerce raider during World War I. His writing offers an immediate, sea-level view of danger, endurance, and survival.
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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 memoir first published in 1918. The book recounts his experience as a prisoner aboard the German raider Wolf during the First World War, and it has remained the work most closely associated with his name.
Contemporary book listings and public-domain catalog records identify him as a sailor and ship's master rather than a career literary figure. The memoir's lasting appeal comes from that perspective: it reads as a direct witness account of wartime capture and life at sea, making it of interest to readers who enjoy naval history, adventure, and personal narratives from World War I.
Reliable biographical detail about his wider life appears to be limited in easily accessible sources, so it is safest to describe him mainly through this surviving work and the remarkable episode behind it.