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The Confidence Men : How Two Prisoners Of War Engineered The Most Remarkable Escape In History

The Confidence Men : How Two Prisoners Of War Engineered The Most Remarkable Escape In History

Fox, Margalit, author.
EAudiobook 2021

"Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp, and one day, a Turkish officer approaches Jones with a...

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Escaped prisoners of war Great Britain Biography
Escaped prisoners of war Turkey Biography
Hill, C. W. (Cedric Waters), 1891-1975
Jones, E. H. (Elias Henry), 1883-1942
Male friendship
Prisoner-of-war camps Turkey Yozgat (Yozgat İli)
Prisoner-of-war escapes Turkey History 20th century
Swindlers and swindling
World War, 1914-1918 Prisoners and prisons, Turkish
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ISBN:
9780593412312
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Electronic reproduction. New York Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2021 Available via World Wide Web
Contents:
Prologue: A wraith at the top of the stairs
For king and country
Besieged
Destination unknown
A hundred springs
Spooked
The uses of enchantment
The regard of flight
In confidence
Villainous OOO
The treasure test
The telechronistic ray
Certifiable
Two lunatics, five hundred pounds of butter, and a great deal of flour
The mad ward
Near death
Persuasion
Epilogue: Afterlife
Control Number:
3115848
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