Captured‪!‬

“The whole wide country was in a bloody, frenzied turmoil—fighting everywhere. Civil war was raging wherever the Red Guards of Lenin set foot. It was an ideal time for an escape—provided one did not value one’s safety too much, and did not care what happened.”


Captured! is the autobiography of World War I Austrian POW Ferdinand Horvath who is taken prisoner on the front lines in 1914 and sent to a concentration camp in Siberia. There he endures brutal conditions for two and a half years until one day fate presents an opportunity for escape. Against impossible odds, Horvath flees the frozen fortress undetected and attempts to make his way across war-torn Russia to the safety of Sweden…