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Eleven Months to Freedom: A German Pow's Unlikely Escape from Siberia in 1915

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Eleven Months to Freedom recounts the daring World War I escape of Germanmidshipman Erich Killinger. Falsely accused of bombing a railway station aftercrashing his plane at sea, he was sentenced to life in the Sakhalin coal mines.Shipped by rail with several other POWs across Russia, Killinger wasdetermined to return home. In order to do this, though, he needed to jumpfrom the train, cross Siberia, and make it to a German-run escape pipeline inChina-all while braving bandits, subzero temperatures, threats of starvation,the ...

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Eleven Months to Freedom: A German Pow's Unlikely Escape from Siberia in 1915 2016, US Naval Institute Press

ISBN-13: 9781682470657

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