|  | | Within Four Wallsby M.C.C. Harrison and H.A. Cartwright
The most famous prisoner of war camp of them all was Colditz, and the account of that camp in the Second World War was Pat Reid's The Colditz Story.
In his introduction to that book, Pat Reid stated that three of the greatest escape stories ever written were The Road to En-Dor, The Escaping Club and this book - Within Four Walls.
Having at last read Within Four Walls, I now know that Pat Reid was right - it is a gripping story, but at times humorous and light hearted. Captain Cartwright's illustrations bring many of the scenes to life.
This book was one of the reasons why I decided to start up www.RippingYarns.com - there are just too many classic tales destined to disappear into oblivion that deserve a better fate.
CONTENTS LISTING
1. MONS TO BURG (M. C. C. Harrison)
In France, August 1914 - Taken prisoner - In hospital at Dortmund - Fort Bruckenkopf, Torgau - Preparations for escape - Removal to Burg.
2. BURG (H. A. Cartwright)
Captured at Mons - Journey to Germany - Torgau - At Burg - Plans for escape - In the civil jail - Camp spies - Clothes for escape - Planning a route - Tailoring and dyeing operations - A fiasco - Walking out of Burg camp with Harrison - Nine days of freedom - Recapture at Rostock - Journey back to Burg - The Germans as searchers - Removal to Halle and Torgau.
3. TORGAU (M. C. C. Harrison)
Collecting of stores - Secret information in parcels - Methods of escape - Walks on parole - Campbell's tunnel - Mobilisation kit - Escape with Lesaffres through the tunnel - Walking to the Baltic - Recapture on the coast - Return via Berlin to Torgau - Planning escape from Torgau civil prison - A court martial - Removal to Magdeburg.
4. HALLE AND MAGDEBURG (H. A. Cartwright)
Camp at Halle - Removal to Furstenberg Back to Burg - Hiding—places for contraband - Removal to Magdeburg - Sawing bars and forging passes - Walking out of camp with Marshall - Doing the sights of Berlin - By train across Germany - Crossing the Emms - Recapture on the frontier at Neu Sustrum - Return to Magdeburg - How stores were received from home - The parcels room - 'Escape' parcels.
5. MAGDEBURG PRISON (M. C. C. Harrison)
In the civil prison at Magdeburg - Possibilities for escape - Obtaining a skeleton key - The parcels office - Cartwright’s arrival - A ruined opportunity of escape - Clothes for a daylight escape - A 'spyhole' picture - Dyeing a coat - Moving cells - Escape with Cartwright from the prison - A two hundred miles' walk - Recapture - Return to Magdeburg - My courts martial - Collecting contraband stores - A last effort with the key.
6. STROHEN (M. C. C. Harrison)
Description of camp - Plans for escape - The bathroom trap—door - Preparations for walk to Holland - A nine days' walk - Crossing the frontier. A quarantine camp - ENGLAND.
7. KUSTRIN, SCHWEIDNITZ AND AACHEN (H.A. Cartwright)
Fort Zorndorf - The communication tunnels - Courts martial in Berlin - Tricks that failed - German military justice - A successful appeal - A good Prussian - The Russians at Zorndorf - Move to Schweidnitz - Plans for escape - Transfer to Aachen - Escaping from Aachen - An out-of-date map - The frontier at last - Rotterdam - The War Office - The Armistice.
8. CONCLUSION (M. C. C. Harrison)
NOTE: this is an electronic e-book, not a paperback or hardback.
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