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In his barely-airworthy Taube monoplane, he flew alone, armed with only a pistol, all the while dodging ground fire and the enemy's eight superior biplanes as he spied on Allied positions and movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the eve of Tsingtao's surrender, PlUschow flew to neutral China, the start of his long journey home. After crash-landing in a padi-field, escaping detention, and slipping out of Shanghai, he made his way across the Pacific, the United States, and the Atlantic, only to be caught in Gilbratar and sent to a POW camp in England. Within six months he would be on the run again, this time successfully - the only German in either world war to escape from a POW camp in Britain and make it all the way back to Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlUschow wrote a gripping account of his wartime experiences, an instant bestseller in 1917 called \u003cem\u003eDie Abenteuer des Fliegers von Tsingtau\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eThe Adventures of the Airman of Tsingtao\u003c\/em\u003e). An English translation appeared in 1922 with the underwhelming title \u003cem\u003eMy Escape from Donington Hall\u003c\/em\u003e. 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As an airman in German service at the outbreak of the First World War he was, unusually, serving in China flying a Rumpler-Taube aircraft from the East Asia naval station at Tsingtau that became besieged by joint Japanese and British forces. Pl schow's attempt to fly to safety, as it became obvious the position would fall, ended in a crash in rice paddies. He set out to walk back to Germany and the many adventures that followed would alone would qualify his story as a remarkable one. However, he was eventually captured and became a prisoner of war. Stories of wartime escape abound, but those who have been incarcerated in England have always been confounded by the difficulties of quitting an island.' In Pl schow's case this was exacerbated since in the east he had acquired a distinctive dragon tattoo; yet Pl schow he succeeded and is the only prisoner of war to escape from Britain and make the 'home run.' 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