TEN MINUTES TO BUFFALO: THE STORY OF GERMANY'S GREAT ESCAPER
Written by Ulrich Steinhilper, Peter Osborne
Published by Independent Books
in 1991
ISBN: 1872836011
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- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR II
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TEN MINUTES TO BUFFALO: THE STORY OF GERMANY'S GREAT ESCAPER
Written by Ulrich Steinhilper, Peter Osborne.
Stock no. 1829543
1st.
1991.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Having fought throughout the Battle of Britain, Ulrich Steinhilper was shot down as he flew his Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4 on a bomber escort duty. So it was in late October 1940 Ulrich was to begin a phase of his life which would stretch him to the limit of physical endurance and to the edge of insanity. He was to become a prisoner of war, but he was not a man to embrace something as alien as imprisonment lightly and so he was to dedicate himself to the idea of escape... Blaqck cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. 432 pages. ISBN: 1872836011. SIGNED by the author to bookplate on front endpaper. Lower corners of boards bumped. Text block slightly grubby. Contents clean. Blue pictorial dustwrapper is ligthly scuffed to rear panel.
Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- Foreword: Time Runs Out
- Chapter 1: Prisoner of War
- Chapter 2: Interrogation Camp
- Chapter 3: Camp Life
- Chapter 4: Out of the Tunnel
- Chapter 5: To Another Continent
- Land in Sight
- Chapter 6: A Long Journey to Nowhere
- The Convention & The Hunger Strike
- Chapter 7: In The Middle of the Wilderness
- Chapter 8: Another Journey-Another Chance
- Chapter 9: Ten Minutes to Buffalo
- AM or PM? That is the question
- The Long Walk
- Collect Your Strength
- Chapter 10: To the Limit at the Border
- Chapter 11: Never Again?
- Chapter 12: How Much Lead Time?
- Chapter 13: Montreal: Two Stations - Two Languages
- Chapter 14: There but for the Grace of God
- Chapter 15: A Guest of the Mounties
- Chapter 16: Back to Bowmanville
- Chapter 17: Another Christmas in Camp
- Chapter 18: A Hole in the Floor
- Chapter 19: A Bold Plan
- Chapter 20: Will They Shoot?
- Chapter 21: Two Men on the Way
- Chapter 22: The St Lawrence and the Border
- Chapter 23; How to Continue?
- Chapter 24: Icy Winds.. Warm Stables.. Cold & Dusty Hay
- Chapter 25: It's a Long Way
- Chapter 26: What a Large Railway Junction!
- Chapter 27: How to Pronounce 'Carthage' in America
- Chapter 28: Waterloo ... At Watertown
- Appendix I
- Appendix II