Our Chances Were Zero: the Daring Escape by Two German Pow's from India in 1942: The Daring Escape by Two German Pows from India in 1944 - Hardcover

Magener, Rolf

 
9780850528442: Our Chances Were Zero: the Daring Escape by Two German Pow's from India in 1942: The Daring Escape by Two German Pows from India in 1944
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0850528445 ISBN 13: 9780850528442
Verlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 2002

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During World War II the British imprisoned many German and Italian prisoners of war and civilian internees in India. The less co-operative prisoners were kept under harsh conditions in camps in the Himalayan foothills. The author was a German civilian working in India at the outbreak of war and was promptly interned by the British. In 1942 Magener and another prisoner, Heins von Have, finally managed to escape. Getting out of the camp was only the prelude to the difficult task of making their way across the entire Indian sub-continent in an attempt to reach friendly territory. Disguising themselves as British officers, the two Germans made an epic journey across India and through British forces on the Burma frontier in an attempt to link up with advancing Japanese forces. Ironically, the Japanese unit they finally located did not believe their story and they came close to being executed as spies.His grippingly told personal narrative of a German's escape from Allied custody is unique in the annals of prisoner-of-war escape and evasion.

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Rolf Magener was working in India at the outbreak of WW2. After his extraordinary escape he finished up in Japan where he was forced to remain until 1947. Thereafter he pursued a highly successful career with the German electrical giant BASF. He died in 2000.

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Verlag
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0850528445
ISBN 13 
9780850528442
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
192
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