Download or read book The Ruhleben Football Association: How Steve Bloomer's Footballers Survived a First World War Prison Camp written by Paul Brown and published by Goal-Post. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.