Gunther Pluschow ~ Written on Apr 16, 2000. 9 out of 9 users found this review helpful.
This is a great book. I also have a copy of Plushow's own book, called My Escape from Donington Hall, and this is what Mr Whittaker used to base his book. It tells of Captain Plushow's adventures in China, fighting the Japanese single handed in a Rumpler Pigeon (Taube). I would advise everyone who likes flying stories to read this one. It's a great story, written by an excellent author (Mr Whittaker) based on Pluschow's own account, which is fascinating. So, if you're into flying and adventure then buy it now.
An obscure true campaign that reads like fiction ~ Written on Jul 13, 1997. 8 out of 8 users found this review helpful.
Besides the unusual and little publicised facts
facts of this 1914 siege, 10 military firsts, six
of which were aviation firsts were discovered never previously documented intoto.
This was the military laboratory that tested
every known state-of-the-art weapon (except
chemical) and awakened Japan's militarism.
Given the name Dragon Master because of the
dragon tatoo on his left arm Lt. G.Plueschow flew
his Rumpler Taube against nine Japanese Army and Navy aircraft. He was credited (Unofficially) with shooting down a Maurice Farman. Plueschow escaped
(under orders) before Tsingtau fell under 13-1 odds. He again escaped Chinese internment and later English internment and fled to Germany 1915.
Woven within this literary tapestry are the
sights, smells, sounds and suffering of China
80 years ago as it was occupied by "Foreign
Devils" from three warring nations, Germany, Japan
and Great Britian.
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