page_title: Cornelius Rost
section_title: Book
hierarchical_section_title: Cornelius Rost / Book
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Exemplar von So weit die Füße tragen mit persönlicher Widmung von Cornelius Rost: „In alter Freundschaft und Bekanntschaft, Ihr Cornelius Rost“
context_page_description: Cornelius Rost was a German World War II soldier who escaped from a Soviet Gulag camp in Chukchi Peninsula, Siberia. The experiences he described were the basis for a book, a television series, and a film.
context_section_description: Fearing a possible backlash by the post-war Allied authorities, Rost agreed to an oral interview only after being granted the use of the alias Clemens Forell. Bauer then processed the eight hours of taped material into his famous 1955 novel So weit die Füße tragen (As far as my feet will carry me).
  In the 1960s, Rost used some of his recollections in his own paperback, Unternehmen Konterbande (Mission Contraband), but it was never printed or published. Bauer’s novel, however, was translated into at least 15 languages and is still being re-published.
caption: Personal dedication of C. Rost in an early book edition
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