Eleven months to freedom : a German POW's unlikely escape from Siberia in 1915 / Dwight R. Messimer.
Eleven months to freedom : a German POW's unlikely escape from Siberia in 1915 / Dwight R. Messimer.
Eleven months to freedom : a German POW's unlikely escape from Siberia in 1915 / Dwight R. Messimer.
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Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2016]
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G 2016/4470
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English
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Physical content
ix, 196 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Comparative ranks in the U.S. Navy and the Imperial German Navy in World War I -- Erich Killinger -- Erich goes to war -- Captured -- The first escape attempt -- Prison -- Transported east -- Escape -- Evasion -- The escape pipeline -- Transpacific -- Transcontinental USA -- Transatlantic -- Germany...
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Publisher
Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2016]
Place of Publication
Maryland
Date Published
[2016]
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Summary
"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 papers, Killinger traveled in style by ship and...
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Eleven months to freedom : a German POW's unlikely escape from Siberia in 1915 / Dwight R. Messimer.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online version: Messimer, Dwight R., 1937- author. Eleven months to freedom. Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2016] 9781682470664 (DLC) 2016015916
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G 2016/4470
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74VKVv88Ox3l
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ISBN
1682470652 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781682470657 hardcover ; alkaline paper
DDC
940.47247092 B
MMS ID
991024038913602626
