Our Chances Were Zero: The Daring Escape by Two Germans from India in 1944
Language: English
Published by Leo Cooper, London, 2001
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Irolita Books, Aurora, ON, CanadaIrolita Books
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Condition: Used - Fine
US$ 24.00
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Clean, unworn copy. No writing or markings. Binding is sound and tight. New archival mylar dj cover. 24 cm. 191 pages. Originally published as Prisoner's Bluff. Two German POWs escape from a camp in India in 1944 and undertake an extraordinary overland journey attempting to reach German-held territory. Additional info or photos on request. Ships in sturdy cardboard packaging, with tracking and insurance.
Seller Inventory # 12765
- Title
- Our Chances Were Zero: The Daring Escape by Two Germans from India in 1944
- Author
- Rolf Magener
- Publisher
- Leo Cooper, London
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- FINE
- Dust jacket
- FINE
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0850528445
- ISBN 13
- 9780850528442
- Item weight
- 595 grams
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Seller catalogs
- History, History - Military, History - Military - WWII
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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