Eleven Months to Freedom: A German Pow's Unlikely Escape from Siberia in 1915

by Dwight R. Messimer

Book Overview

Eleven Months to Freedom recounts the daring World War I escape of German midshipman Erich Killinger. Falsely accused of bombing a railway station after crashing his plane at sea, he was sentenced to life in the Sakhalin coal mines. Shipped by rail with several other POWs across Russia, Killinger was determined to return home. In order to do this, though, he needed to jump from the train, cross Siberia, and make it to a German-run escape pipeline...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682470652
• ISBN13: 9781682470657
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 4.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.1"