Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom
By Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston, Kenneth Darlaston Yearsley · Running time 06:51:25 · War & Military, Memoirs
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Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom is the true but little known story of the escape of eight British Prisoners-of-War from a Turkish POW camp during the First World War. The story, written by two of the escapees, describes their life in the various POW camps in Turkey in which they were moved around, and then their well-planned and executed escape from the camp at Yozgad. They were then faced with a trek of over three hundred miles across arid deserts, and a mountain range, constantly searching for water, all the while attempting to avoid detection by soldiers and the local population. A further 120
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