Thirty-four years of hell : [typescript] 20th century

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Thirty-four years of hell : [typescript] 20th century

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"34 Years of Hell," an account of the life of Henri de Boin, including his enlistment in the French Foreign Legion in April 1905, his court martial and subsequent banishment to the penal colony at Devil's Island, French Guiana, his twenty-one unsuccessful attempts at escape, his ultimate escape to the Bahamas, and his involvement with the murder of Sir Harry Oakes at Nassau, the Bahamas, in 1943. Typescript (carbon)

.04 linear foot (1 volume)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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De Boin, Henri, b. 1887

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Oakes, Harry, Sir, 1874-1943

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France. Armée. Légion étrangère.

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