Project Gutenberg 2015-11-10 Public domain in the USA. 73 Johnston, Maurice Andrew Brackenreed 1892 Yearsley, Kenneth Darlaston 1891 20000759 Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom 450 miles to freedom: the adventures of eight British officers in their escape from the Turks E-text prepared by MWS, Moti Ben-Ari, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (https://archive.org/details/toronto) "Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom" by Captain M. A. B. Johnston and Captain K. D. Yearsley is a memoir detailing the experiences of British officers during World War I, written in the early 20th century. The narrative unfolds against the backdrop of the Ottoman Empire, focusing on the struggle for survival and the quest for freedom after being taken prisoners of war. The book likely explores themes of camaraderie, resilience, and the harsh realities of captivity, with the main protagonists consisting of a group of officers united by their longing for freedom. The opening of the memoir introduces the prisoners' dire situation as they find themselves relocated to a new camp in Changri, after the recent escape of several fellow officers. The authors detail their daily lives under Turkish captivity, highlighting the discomforts and hardships faced, while also portraying their plans for escape. Through engaging anecdotes and descriptions of their interactions with Turkish guards, the narrative sets the stage for the trials that lie ahead, suggesting an underlying determination in the officers to devise a successful escape plan despite the odds stacked against them. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, Turkish Prisoner-of-war escapes D501 Text Browsing: History - General 470155 469920 2024-09-21T05:45:02.858146 2023-09-22T03:39:05.641691 text/html text/html 471505 2015-11-10T16:31:39 text/html 1590508 2015-11-10T16:33:51 text/html application/zip 1664316 2024-09-21T05:45:09.521055 application/epub+zip 1668756 2024-09-21T05:45:03.944091 application/epub+zip 251592 2024-09-21T05:45:03.364077 application/epub+zip 1804540 2024-09-21T05:45:13.915055 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1761077 2024-09-21T05:45:08.690084 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 345027 2022-09-22T18:32:06.329344 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 424542 424328 2024-09-21T05:45:02.105084 2023-09-22T03:39:04.777681 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 424526 2015-11-10T16:24:56 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 162195 2015-11-10T16:24:56 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 424591 2015-11-10T16:24:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 162163 2015-11-10T16:24:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20111 2024-09-21T05:45:14.060114 application/rdf+xml 20743 2024-09-21T05:45:03.449082 image/jpeg 2950 2024-09-21T05:45:03.407071 image/jpeg 1594230 2024-09-21T05:45:02.933076 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog