From Commandant to Captive: The Memoirs of Stalag Luft III Commandant Col. Friedrich Wilhelm von Lindeiner genannt von Wildau With Postwar Intervi

by Michael Eberhardt and Marilyn Walton

At 6:30 a.m. on 27 January 1945, Col. Friedrich von Lindeiner, the court martialed and exiled "gentleman" ex-Commandant of Stalag Luft III, sat in the waiting room of the G rlitz train station hoping to return to Sagan, Germany, to fight the approaching Russians. The distance from G rlitz to Sagan was 28.5 miles. He arrived fifteen hours later as 10,000 Allied prisoners of war were evacuating his former camp. Like them, he would soon view the war...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1483425398
• ISBN13: 9781483425399
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Lulu Publishing Services
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"