Round the World to Freedom: Being the Escapes and Adventures of Major Paul Stoffa (of the Hungarian Army)

1st edition orig. cloth Very Good tall octavo. 286pp., frontis., b/w pls., ex libris with remains of library form to clipped fep and of sticker to top board. Foxing to eps and occasionally margins.Generally clean and tight. As an artillery officer in the Austro-Hungarian army Stoffa was captured by the Russians & sent to a POW camp in Siberia. Stoffa escaped making his way through China to the Pacific Ocean where he managed to board a ship to the USA. In America he signed on as a stoker on a Swedish ship destined for Europe. When the ship put into Stornaway he was captured, & lacking any military credentials was imprisoned in London before being sent to the civilian camp at Alexandra Palace before being transferred to Knockaloe POW camp. Inc. remarkable accounts of Cossacks at the time of the revolution & of life in China. Small institutional stamp to p1 o/w a decent copy of a very scarce title.