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Loading... Outwitting the Hun: My Escape from a German Prison Camp (1918)by Pat O'Brien
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Couldn't put it down...very well told ( ) The Amazon customer review by Bobbi's Books motivated me to try this old WWI escape memoir. It's about an American flying ace shot down over German lines who is taken prisoner and escapes on foot across hundreds of miles. It starts off slow and builds to the end with many close calls. The episode in a Belgian town with "Heidegger" is memorable as he hides in plain sight from German soldiers. Although with a propagandist slant (you can tell by the title) it's a true account and fun to step back in time, I enjoyed it. It was one of the best-selling war books in 1918, earning 6th spot on Publisher Weekly's best-seller list, but largely forgotten today. All the more fun for discovering. The LibriVox recording by David Wales is professional quality, or the original book at Internet Archive. no reviews | add a review
There is a common idea that the age of miracles is past. Perhaps it is, but if so, the change must have come about within the past few weeks-after I escaped into Holland. For if anything is certain in this life it is this: this book never would have been written but for the succession of miracles set forth in these pages.Miracles, luck, coincidence, Providence-it doesn't matter much what you call it-certainly played an important part in the series of hairbreadth escapes in which I figured during my short but eventful appearance in the great drama now being enacted across the seas. Without it, all my efforts and sufferings would have been quite unavailing.No one realizes this better than I do and I want to repeat it right here because elsewhere in these pages I may appear occasionally to overlook or minimize it: without the help of Providence I would not be here today.But this same Providence which brought me home safely, despite all the dangers which beset me, may work similar miracles for others, and it is in the hope of encouraging other poor devils who may find themselves in situations as hopeless apparently as mine oftentimes were that this book is written. No library descriptions found. |
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