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Eleven months to freedom : a German POW's unlikely escape from Siberia in 1915 /

This book is about the eleven-month odyssey of German midshipman Erich Killinger who was captured by Russia at the start of World War I. Killinger escaped the Russian POW train in Siberia, fled to China and passed through a series of German consulates and safe houses to Shanghai. Given fake identity...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Messimer, Dwight R., 1937- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Killinger, Erich, > 1893-1977.
Germany. > Kriegsmarine > Officers > Biography.
Germany. > Luftwaffe > Officers > Biography.
Prisoners of war > Germany > Biography.
Prisoners of war > Russia > Biography.
World War, 1914-1918 > Prisoners and prisons, Russian.
Escapes > History > 20th century.
Military interrogation > Germany > Oberursel.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German.
Voyages around the world.

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Call Number: D627.R8 M38 2016
 
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