To Ruhleben-And Back: A Great Adventure in Three Phases

By Geoffrey Pyke

Book Overview

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971904782
• ISBN13: 9780971904781
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A Smart Cliffhanger

I wasn't sure what to expect when I got "To Ruhleben and Back," but this memoir was a strange and wonderful surprise: English college kid sneaks into wartime (1914) Berlin as a journalist on a dare, gets in way over his head, is thrown into a prison camp, and then escapes with a fellow inmate in broad daylight to run, hide, and bluff their way across Germany to freedom. It's a really engrossing, old fashioned page turner. It's not a war book at all, more like a weird survival odyssey with a total wiseass: at one point he even poses as a sort of folk singer, probably not your usual POW escape plan. Great stuff.