The book "My German Prisons. An Officer's Experience During Two and a Half Years as a Prisoner of War" by Horace Gray Gilland is an autobiographical novel that tells about the difficult life in captivity during the First World War. The author describes his impressions and emotions in the German prisons in the first person. He talks about life in the camps, communication with other prisoners of war, the impact of war on the psyche and physical condition of a person. This book gives the reader an opportunity to better understand the severity of war and its consequences for people who were captured by the opposite side of the conflict.