MAGENER, Rolf - Prisoner`s Bluff - (Hardcover in Dustwrapper)

Book very good with gift message in front - Wrapper shows use.   >>>   Tells of the escape by two Germans from an Indian prison camp in World War II in Dehra Dun. Rolf Magener and his companion Heins von Have were two of a determine group of men to break out of the Dehra Dun prison camp in northern India. While Heinrich Harrer turned north toward Tibet, Magener and von Have instead headed southeast set out for Calcutta.  >>>   A WW2 escape story with a difference. A German national working in Bombay, India for I. G. Farben, a large chemical and pharmaceutical company, the author was interned by the British at the outbreak of WW2 in a camp at Dehra Dun near the Nepal border, the same camp from which the climber Heinrich Harrer escaped to Tibet and later wrote about his seven years there. The author and a fellow internee, Heinz von Have, with a kniowledge of English and wearing faked British uniforms escaped and travelled to Calcutta and then by walking, train and steamer to Rangoon and their Japanese 'allies''.      *