Clemens Forell was called up for military service in 1938 and
volunteered for a paratroop regiment. During his service he was
dropped first into Rotterdam then Eben Emanel and Crete, before
finally arriving on the Eastern Front where his luck deserted him.
Just as his company ran out of food and ammunition, they were
surrounded by Cossacks and in the ensuing fight Forell was shot
through the mouth. He was captured and treated in a Russian
partisan hospital, then in 1945 he was sent to Lublyanka, a remand
prison in Moscow, where he was sentenced to 25 years penal labour
in a Siberian lead mine. Conditions were brutal and, with the help
of a dying doctor, Forell made a daring escape. But this turned out
to be only the first hurdle in his battle to return home to his
wife and children in Munich. He faced an 8000-mile trek from the
Chuckchi Peninsula, in Eastern Siberia, to Persia, a journey that
took him three years and two months. Jospeh Bauer first learnt
about Forell's harrowing journey in 1954 and encouraged him to talk
about his experiences in a series of interviews. These interviews
went on to form the basis of Bauer's dramatic reconstruction, which
brilliantly captures Forell's absolute desperation to break out of
the East Cape prison camp and his ensuing flight across one of the
most inhospitable terrains in the world. This is a prisoner-of-war
story, an adventure story and a thriller, but it is also the story
of one man's determination to be free. It is a testament to the
strength of the human spirit, which goes on long after all hope
should have died. 50 years after its first publication this book is
still a moving and powerful masterpiece. (Kirkus UK)
Clemens Forell, a German soldier, was sentenced to 25 years of
forced labour in a Siberian lead mine after World War II. Rebelling
against the brutality of the camp, Forell staged a daring escape
enduring an 8000-mile journey across the trackless wastes of
Siberia, in some of the most treacherous and inhospitable
conditions on earth. Bauer's writing evokes Forell's desperation in
the prison camp, and his struggle for survival and terror of
recapture as he makes his way towards the Persian frontier and
freedom.
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