TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fox,Margalit
TI  - The confidence men: how two prisoners of war engineered the most remarkable escape in history 
SN  - 9781788162715 (hbk.) :
AV  - D627 
U1  - 940.4725 FOX 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Profile Books
KW  - Jones, E. H.
KW  - Hill, C. W.
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Prisoners and prisons, Turkish
KW  - Prisoner-of-war escapes
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Personal narratives, British
KW  - Warfare and Defence
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Ottoman Empire
KW  - thema
KW  - True war  & combat stories
KW  - European history
KW  - First World War
KW  - Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -