The confidence men : how two prisoners of war engineered the most remarkable escape in history
Fox, Margalit2021
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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 séances 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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London : Profile Books, 2021.
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xvi, 329 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 22 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781788162715 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.4'72561'0922940.4725610922
Language:
English
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Jones, E. H. (Elias Henry), 1883-1942Hill, C. W. (Cedric Waters), 1891-1975World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, TurkishPrisoner-of-war escapes -- TurkeyWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, BritishWarfare and DefenceOttoman EmpireTrue war & combat storiesEuropean historyFirst World WarPopular beliefs & controversial knowledge
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3136455
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