Here for the first time is the account of the life of P.G. Wodehouse, the world
famous author and librettist known as Plummie, during his missing years as an
internee in Germany 1941 & 1942. The story covers his release from a lunatic
asylum to the panacea of the most peaceful country estate where he wrote and
polished his book "Joy In The Morning" as well as making his ill advised, but
wholly innocuous, broadcasts intended for his American friends and
correspondents.
The most dramatic and delightful story of his change of fortune as a civilian
prisoner of war is told as witnessed through the eyes and ears of young
German aristocratic girl, Reinhild, and her mother, the beautiful widowed
Baroness Anga von Bodenhausen, on their estate in the Harz Mountains,
Degenershausen.
There is revealed an almost unbelievable charade because within this wartime
country haven of the fervently anti-Nazi Baroness, are French Prisoners of War,
the British Wodehouses, the Baroness's fiancée, Baron Raven von Barnikow,
formally a dashing flying first war ace of the Richthofen Staffel but now also
fervently anti-Nazi, Safon the cart horse (the main station transport), a variety
of guests and Bwana (Reinhild's dog) and his rival the Wodehouse Pekinese.
This book demonstrates the unfair nature of the public reaction and
accusations to "Uncle Plummie's" broadcast, and it is also an authoritative
insight into his innocence, bringing with it a mélange of history, survival and
death, combined with so many of the other misfortunes of war.