The confidence men : how two prisoners of war engineered the most remarkable escape in history /
by Fox, Margalit.
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BookPublisher: London : Profile Books, 2021Description: xvi, 329 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781788162715 (hbk.) :; 1788162714 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 940.4725 FOXSubject(s): Jones, E. H. Elias Henry, 1883-1942 | Hill, C. W. Cedric Waters, 1891-1975 | World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, Turkish | Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Turkey | World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British | Warfare and Defence | Warfare and Defence | Ottoman Empire | True war & combat stories | European history | First World War | Popular beliefs & controversial knowledgeSummary: Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly join forces. To stave off boredom, Jones makes a handmade Ouija board and holds fake seances for fellow prisoners. One day, an Ottoman official approaches him with a query: could Jones contact the spirits to find a vast treasure rumoured to be buried nearby? Jones, a lawyer, and Hill, a magician, use the Ouija board - and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception - to build a trap for their captors that will lead them to freedom.
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Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly join forces. To stave off boredom, Jones makes a handmade Ouija board and holds fake seances for fellow prisoners. One day, an Ottoman official approaches him with a query: could Jones contact the spirits to find a vast treasure rumoured to be buried nearby? Jones, a lawyer, and Hill, a magician, use the Ouija board - and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception - to build a trap for their captors that will lead them to freedom.
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