Kenneth Darlaston Yearslay

Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom is a memoir published in 1919 detailing a group of English officers who escaped a Turkish prison and traveled incognito through the countryside to freedom,. It's well written, the author has a literary background, and occasionally funny. They seemed to be blessedly lucky though there is enough danger and hardship to keep it real. One of the better WWI escape memoirs though obviously extremely obscure. Discovered by way of the excellent LibriVox narrator Kevin Green who is Mr. Johnston returned from the grave.… (meer)