Download or read book The Aviator of Tsingtao written by Gunther Plüschow and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extraordinary airman and explorer Gunther Pluschow recounts his time as Germany's "one-man airforce in the East" during the 1914 siege of Tsingtao, followed by escaping twice from the clutches of the Allies. He remains the only German prisoner from either World War to escape from Britain and make it all the way back to Germany.
Download or read book The Dark Invader written by Franz von Rintelen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Invader is indeed an intelligence classic - a first-hand report by a top German intelligence agent sent to the still-neutral United States in the First World War. Rintelen's orders in Berlin had called for measures to prevent the shipment of American war material to Germany' enemies. In the US, this meant buying arms to keep them from being purchased by the Allies, but it could also mean placing bombs in the hulls of ships sailing for Europe and fomenting strikes among the labour force of American ammunition manufacturers.
Download or read book Guide Book in Tsingtao and Its Vicinity written by Adolf Haupt and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Gunther Pl schow written by Anton Rippon and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gunther Plschow of the German Imperial Navy holds a unique place in history—during the First World War he was the only German prisoner of war ever to escape from the British mainland and make it all the way back to the Fatherland. Yet, although his daring break for freedom in 1915 is astonishing in its own right, Plschow was much more than simply an escaped POW. He was also a fearless aviator who flew against the British and Japanese in the Far East, and he was an explorer. After the war, he set sail for the southernmost tip of South America and became the first man to fly over Tierra del Fuego. He continued to explore what was then a largely unknown region of the world until his tragic death in 1931, when his parachute failed to open following a midair accident in Patagonia. In 'Gunther Plschow: Airman, Escaper, Explorer,' Anton Rippon tells this extraordinary tale in vivid detail. It is a tale that would do justice to the best adventure fiction—except that every word of it is true.
Download or read book The Dark Invader written by Captain Franz von Rintelen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Dark Invader" is a first-hand report by a top German intelligence agent sent to the still-neutral United States in World War I. Later historical research and analysis, based on the secret documents captured at the end of WWII, prove that the facts and events described in this memoir are true.
Download or read book Gunther Pluschow written by Anton Rippon and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aviation.
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Download or read book Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples written by Georg Brandes and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georg Brandes was known as the "Father of the Modern Breakthrough" for his influence on Scandinavian writers in the late nineteenth century. A prominent writer, thinker, and speaker, he often examined intellectual topics beyond the literary criticism he was best known for. In this collection, William Banks has translated a number of Brandes's pieces that engage in the concerns of oppressed peoples. By collecting, annotating, and contextualizing these works, Banks reintroduces Brandes as a major progenitor of thinking about the rights of national minorities and the colonized. Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples includes thirty-five essays and published speeches from the early twenty-first century on subjects as diverse as the Boxer Rebellion, displaced peoples from World War I, Finland's Jewish population, and imperialism. This collection will interest interdisciplinary scholars of human rights as well as those who study Scandinavian intellectual and literary history.
Download or read book Forbes written by Bertie Charles Forbes and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This business magazine covers domestic and international business topics. Special issues include Annual Report on American Industry, Forbes 500, Stock Bargains, and Special Report on Multinationals.
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Download or read book Fugitives written by Gordon Kerr and published by Canary Press eBooks. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heather Tallchief escaped from the USA with the man she loved and $2.5 million that didn't belong to her. She must have been on an incredible high. However, the buzz didn't last long. Soon after she and Roberto Solanis landed in Amsterdam to start their new life together, her lover vanished with the loot. Read Heather's incredible story and many more in Fugitives, a book that explores the realities of life on the run from the perspective of the world's Most Wanted. Contents: British Fugitives including Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Lucan Terrorists including Osama Bin Laden War Criminals including Josef Mengele and Radovan Karodic Gangsters including Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger Crooks and Conmen including Casanova and Frank Abnagale Jr Killers including Charles Starkweather and Ted Bundy Wild West including Billy the Kid and Butch Cassidy also Politicians, Fugitives from Slavery and Prisoners of War
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Download or read book Best Little Stories from World War I written by C. Brian Kelly and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the tangled alliances, feuding royals, and deadly battles are the nearly 100 riveting true stories of the men and women who lived, fought, and survived the first Great War. Based on the writings of soldiers, politicians, kings, nurses, and military leaders, Best Little Stories from World War I humanizes their foibles, triumphs, and tragedies—and chronicles how the emergence of fervent national pride led not only to ruthless combat, but a critical turning point in the twentieth century. Fascinating characters come to life, including: Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnavon, who turned her husband's Highclere Castle into a luxurious military hospital for British officers (and inspired the hit television show Downton Abbey). Otto Roosen, the high-flying German reconnaissance pilot, who was shot down not only one but twice—first by the Canadian ace Billy Bishop and then by a fellow German—and survived. Arthur Guy Empey, the American who volunteered for the British Army after the sinking of the Lusitania, then wrote a bestselling memoir about life in the muddy trenches of the western front.
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Download or read book Escape from England written by Gunther Plüschow and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In either World War, only one German escaped from mainland Britain: Gunther Pluschow. Escape From England tells his story - and of his previous escape halfway round the world to get back to Europe. account of the siege of Tsingtao (Germany's Chinese enclave), describes possibly the first aerial combat of WW1 and finally tells of the British Home Front in 1915 (as seen through German eyes ). (similar to Hong Kong). Japan declared war on Germany in 1914 and besieged the colony. Pluschow flew reconnaissance missions until Tsingtao fell, when he escaped to China. He escaped from internment and caught a ship to San Francisco, travelled overland across the USA and caught another ship to Europe. luck ran out. The ship was stopped by the British at Gibraltar and Pluschow was captured again, from where he was taken to England. It was then that he made his daring escape. streets of London. Whilst waiting to try and stowaway on a neutral vessel, he was nearly press-ganged into being recruited for the British Army, which would have been irony indeed. Pluschow's narrative of the little-known siege of Tsingtao. During his reconnaissance sorties, he was unofficially credited with shooting down a Maurice Farman aircraft - an aviation first. Escape from England at last brings this remarkable man's stories back into press. It has been too long in coming.
Download or read book The Siege of Tsingtau written by Charles Stephenson and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A well-written, modern narrative of the political and military events leading up to, during and after the German-Japanese War of 1914.”—The Australian Naval Institute The German-Japanese War was a key, yet often neglected, episode in the opening phase of the First World War. It had profound implications for the future, particularly in respect of Japan’s acquisition of Germany’s Micronesian islands. Japan’s naval perimeter was extended and threatened the United States naval strategy of projecting force westward. The campaign to relieve Germany of Tsingtau, the port and naval base in China, and its hinterland posed a grave threat to Chinese independence. The course of the Second World War in China and the Pacific cannot be explained without reference to these events. Charles Stephenson’s account makes fascinating reading. The siege of Tsingtau by the Japanese, with token British participation, forms the core of his story. He draws on Japanese and German primary sources to describe the defenses, the landings, the course of the siege, and eventual German surrender. His study will be absorbing reading for anyone interested in the campaigns of the First World War outside of Europe, in German colonial expansion and the rise to power of Japan. “Overall the volume delivers a much needed, interesting and often highly detailed overview of operations in the Pacific and the siege of Tsingtau. The volume excels especially in its detailed narrative of naval and land operations in the Pacific and in China. The geopolitical background provides a most useful introduction to the history of the region.”—International Journal of Maritime History
