Josef M. Bauer As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me

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A German soldier recounts his harrowing escape from a Soviet POW camp and his struggle for survival. In 1944, German paratrooper Clemens Forell was captured by the Soviets and sentenced to twenty-five years of labor in a Siberian lead mine. In the Gulags, this was virtually a death sentence. Driven to desperation by the brutality of the prison camp, he staged a daring escape.For the next three years, Forell traveled 8,000 miles in barren, frozen wilderness, haunted by blizzards, wolves, criminals, the KGB, and the fear of recapture and retribution. Only a remarkable will to survive, and a bit of luck, allowed him to reach the safety of the Persian border.The resulting story is a rare document of the horrors faced by POWs in the Soviet Union, and a testament to the human spirit.Translated into fifteen languages! Twelve million copies sold!"One of the wildest adventure books of our time . . . For anyone who has ever been to Russia, the facts are unmistakably true." -Curt Hohof, Suddeutsche Zeitung (Germany)"Bauer has given us more than a prisoner-of-war story; he has left us one of the greatest adventure stories." -Walter Gorlitz, Die Welt (Germany)"More compelling than any thriller." -Helmut Uhlig, Tagesspiegel (Germany)