Description

Title: White’s Flight – An Australian pilot’s epic escape from Turkish prison camp to Russia’s Revolution

Author: Fred and Elizabeth Brenchley

Condition: Near Mint

Edition: 1st Edition

Publication Date: 2004

ISBN: 1740311000

Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 252 pages

Comments: The author was a amongst Australia’s first batch of four airmen in 1914 (a member of the Mesopotamian Half Flight).  

Captured in 1915 by the Arabs then Turks and after several escape attempts and disguises, the author reached Odessa, then under Bolshevik control prior to the Russian revolution.

A classic account of capture and escape during World War 1.