Publisher's Synopsis
13 Days: The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison is a classic World War One memoir by John Alan Lyde Caunter. On placing before the public this account of my escape from Germany and some episodes from my life in two prison camps, I feel that I must make clear that it was only due to the fact that I had two definite supplementary objects to attain, that I succeeded in making myself launch out in the following pages.