Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom
Author: first_name: Maurice Andrew Brackenreed
last_name: Johnston
first_name: Kenneth Darlaston
last_name: Yearsley
Language: English
Year: 1919

Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom is the true but little known story of the escape of eight British Prisoners-of-War from a Turkish POW camp during the First World War. The story, written by two of the escapees, describes their life in the various POW camps in Turkey in which they were moved around, and then their well-planned and executed escape from the camp at Yozgad. They were then faced with a trek of over three hundred miles across arid deserts, and a mountain range, constantly searching for wat