My Escape From Donington Hall: Preceded by an Account of the Siege of Kiao-Chow in 1915

Plüschow, Gunther

History

Franklin Classics

My escape from Donington hall, preceded by an account of the siege of Kiao-Chow in 1915

De Chary, Pauline

Nabu Press

My escape from Donington hall, preceded by an account of the siege of Kiao-Chow in 1915 - Scholar's Choice Edition

Military

Scholar's Choice

Andesite Press

This German aviator was the only prisoner of war to escape back to Germany from Britain during World War I.  First published in 1922, this book tells of his escape and is preceded by an account of the siege of Kiao-Chow in 1914 in which he was also involved.

My Escape from Donington Hall (Illustrated Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Echo Library

My escape from Donington hall

It was an escape from a PoW camp as daring and fraught with danger as any immortalized by Hollywood. Yet the story is less familiar than most – as it concerns the only German prisoner of war to escape from captivity in mainland Britain and make it home during either World War.After being caught in Gibraltar during an earlier attempt to return to his homeland, Pluschow and other captured Germans were shipped to Plymouth and then on to the PoW camp at Donington Hall, where he arrived in May 1915.On July 4 he and fellow prisoner Oskar Trefftz broke out by climbing over two 9ft barbed wire fences, before changing clothes and walking 15 miles to Derby where they caught a train to London.By the next morning the men’s escape was featured in the Daily Sketch newspaper with both names and descriptions of the pair. They went their separate ways but Trefftz was recaptured at Millwall Docks. Realizing he had to alter his appearance, Pluschow removed his smart tie and handed his coat in at the cloakroom at Blackfriars station. The German then used scraped-up coal dust, boot polish and Vaseline to change his fair hair to greasy black and covered himself in soot to make him appear as a dock worker. Pluschow then stowed away on a Dutch steamer ship at Tilbury docks, talked his way past a policeman in Holland before traveling to Germany by train. Upon his return home he received a hero’s welcome and was presented with the Iron Cross First Class.This extraordinary story is told in Gunther's own words for the first time in English.

My Escape from Donington Hall

Pen and Sword Military

Tsingtao - idyillic beach resort in China, Little Germany upon the Yellow Sea, home port to the Kaiser's East Asia Squadron - was the scene of a historically important yet largely forgotten First World War battle. In the autumn of 1914, four thousand German defenders, outnumbered six to one by Japanese and British forces, and outgunned on land, air, and sea, resisted bravely for two months. Nowhere was the fight more one-sided than in the air, the remarkable Gunther Pl schow the enclave's one-man airforce. In his barely-airworthy Taube monoplane, he flew alone, armed with only a pistol, all the while dodging ground fire and the enemy's eight superior biplanes as he spied on Allied positions and movements.On the eve of Tsingtao's surrender, Pl schow flew to neutral China, the start of his long journey home. After crash-landing in a padi-field, escaping detention, and slipping out of Shanghai, he made his way across the Pacific, the United States, and the Atlantic, only to be caught in Gilbratar and sent to a POW camp in England. Within six months he would be on the run again, this time successfully - the only German in either world war to escape from a POW camp in Britain and make it all the way back to Germany.Pl schow wrote a gripping account of his wartime experiences, an instant bestseller in 1917 called Die Abenteuer des Fliegers von Tsingtau (The Adventures of the Airman of Tsingtao). An English translation appeared in 1922 with the underwhelming title My Escape from Donington Hall. This retitled Camphor Press edition has new material, including notes throughout the text, a timeline, and an introduction by British author Anton Rippon, whose 2009 biography Gunther Pl schow, Airman, Escaper, Explorer is the standard work on this remarkable figure.

The Aviator of Tsingtao: My War in China and Escape from a British POW Camp

Historical

Camphor Press Ltd

Segelfahrt ins Wunderland

Reference

Aischines Verlag

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Inktank Publishing

Plüschow war deutscher Marineoffzier, bekannt insbesondere als "Flieger von Tsingtau". In Feuerland überflog er als Erster die Darwin-Kordillere, das Kap Horn und die Torres del Paine. Das Buch berichtet über seine Expedition in Südamerika.

Silberkondor über Feuerland (German Edition)

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh

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