Giday everyone,
Yesterday I was very fortunate to pick up a copy of the book, "As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me".
Have any of you read this book?
For those who don't know, the book tells the incredible true account of a German paratrooper, alias Clemens Forell, who was captured by the Soviets and, at the end of the war, was sentanced to twenty-five years hard labour in Siberia. However Forell manages to escape. Sometimes walking, sometimes travelling by train, Forell, after almost three and a half years, manages to make it back to Germany.
The author claims that Forell after having jumped over Rotterdam, Eben Emael and Crete, was put in charge of a company that was dropped behind the Urels inside the Russian lines. They blew up a number of bridges and depots before they were encircled by a Russian Cossack unit and annihilated.
Clearly it would not be possible for a German paratrooper to have jumped over Rotterdam and to have participated in the assault against the fortress of Eben Emael.
Who can tell me what parts of the book are fact and which are fiction?
Does anyone know what Clemen Forell's real name was?
All the best,
Ian
Yesterday I was very fortunate to pick up a copy of the book, "As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me".
Have any of you read this book?
For those who don't know, the book tells the incredible true account of a German paratrooper, alias Clemens Forell, who was captured by the Soviets and, at the end of the war, was sentanced to twenty-five years hard labour in Siberia. However Forell manages to escape. Sometimes walking, sometimes travelling by train, Forell, after almost three and a half years, manages to make it back to Germany.
The author claims that Forell after having jumped over Rotterdam, Eben Emael and Crete, was put in charge of a company that was dropped behind the Urels inside the Russian lines. They blew up a number of bridges and depots before they were encircled by a Russian Cossack unit and annihilated.
Clearly it would not be possible for a German paratrooper to have jumped over Rotterdam and to have participated in the assault against the fortress of Eben Emael.
Who can tell me what parts of the book are fact and which are fiction?
Does anyone know what Clemen Forell's real name was?
All the best,
Ian
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