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Author | : Anton Rippon |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2010-03-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1844685241 |
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Gunther Plschow of the German Imperial Navy holds a unique place in history—during the First World War he was the only German prisoner of war ever to escape from the British mainland and make it all the way back to the Fatherland. Yet, although his daring break for freedom in 1915 is astonishing in its own right, Plschow was much more than simply an escaped POW. He was also a fearless aviator who flew against the British and Japanese in the Far East, and he was an explorer. After the war, he set sail for the southernmost tip of South America and became the first man to fly over Tierra del Fuego. He continued to explore what was then a largely unknown region of the world until his tragic death in 1931, when his parachute failed to open following a midair accident in Patagonia. In 'Gunther Plschow: Airman, Escaper, Explorer,' Anton Rippon tells this extraordinary tale in vivid detail. It is a tale that would do justice to the best adventure fiction—except that every word of it is true.
Author | : Anton Rippon |
Publisher | : Pen & Sword Military |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2010-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Roberto Litvachkes |
Publisher | : roberto litvachkes |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Air pilots |
ISBN | : 9872176019 |
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Author | : Gunther Plüschow |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2015-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473855268 |
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It was an escape from a PoW camp as daring and fraught with danger as any immortalised 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. Realising 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 travelling 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.
Author | : Gunther Plüschow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : 9781904466215 |
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In either World War, only one German escaped from mainland Britain: Gunther Pluschow. Escape From England tells his story - and of his previous escape halfway round the world to get back to Europe. account of the siege of Tsingtao (Germany's Chinese enclave), describes possibly the first aerial combat of WW1 and finally tells of the British Home Front in 1915 (as seen through German eyes ). (similar to Hong Kong). Japan declared war on Germany in 1914 and besieged the colony. Pluschow flew reconnaissance missions until Tsingtao fell, when he escaped to China. He escaped from internment and caught a ship to San Francisco, travelled overland across the USA and caught another ship to Europe. luck ran out. The ship was stopped by the British at Gibraltar and Pluschow was captured again, from where he was taken to England. It was then that he made his daring escape. streets of London. Whilst waiting to try and stowaway on a neutral vessel, he was nearly press-ganged into being recruited for the British Army, which would have been irony indeed. Pluschow's narrative of the little-known siege of Tsingtao. During his reconnaissance sorties, he was unofficially credited with shooting down a Maurice Farman aircraft - an aviation first. Escape from England at last brings this remarkable man's stories back into press. It has been too long in coming.
Author | : Anton Rippon |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2006-09-15 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1781597375 |
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This “startlingly good and vividly illuminating book” sheds new light on the Fascist sports spectacle that transfixed the world (The Spectator). For two weeks in August 1936, Nazi Germany achieved an astonishing propaganda coup when it staged the Olympic Games in Berlin. Hiding their anti-Semitism and plans for territorial expansion, the Nazis exploited the Olympic ideal, dazzling visiting spectators and journalists alike with an image of a peaceful, tolerant Germany. In Hitler’s Olympics, Anton Rippon tells the story of those remarkable Games, the first to overtly use the Olympic festival for political purposes. His account, which is illustrated with almost 200 rare photographs of the event, looks at how the rise of the Nazis affected German sportsmen and women in the early 1930s. And it reveals how the rest of the world allowed the Berlin Olympics to go ahead despite the knowledge that Nazi Germany was a police state.
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Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Periodicals |
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Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : English literature |
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Author | : Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 832 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : International relations |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edmund Dene Morel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 924 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Europe |
ISBN | : |
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