My escape from Donington hall
By: Gunther Plüschow
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Barnsley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781473855380; 9781473827059
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; German Personal narratives; British Prisoners and prisons; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Historical; HISTORY; Western
Description: It was an escape from a PoW camp as daring and fraught with danger as any immortalised by Hollywood. Yet the story is less familiar than most - as it concerns the only German prisoner of war to escape from captivity in mainland Britain and make it home during either World War. After being caught in Gibraltar during an earlier attempt to return to his homeland, Pluschow and other captured Germans were shipped to Plymouth and then on to the PoW camp at Donington Hall, where he arrived in May 1915. On July 4 he and fellow prisoner Oskar Trefftz broke out by climbing over two 9ft barbed wire fence.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List Of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Joys and Sorrows of a Flying-Man; Chapter 2: Beautiful Days in Kiao-Chow; Chapter 3: Threat of War; title: My Taube; Chapter 4: Some Japanese Jokes; Chapter 5: My War Ruse; Chapter 6: Hurrah!; Chapter 7: The Last Day; Chapter 8: In the Slime of the Chinese Rice-Field; Chapter 9: Mr. Macgarvin's Ptomaine Poisoning; Chapter 10: Caught!; Chapter 11: Behind Walls and Barbed Wire; Chapter 12: The Escape; Chapter 13: Black Nights on the Thames; Chapter 14: Still at Large: The Chinese Dragon Clue.; title: Chapter 15: The StowawayChapter 16: The Way to Freedom; Chapter 17: Back in the Fatherland!