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The confidence men how two prisoners of war engineered the most remarkable escape in history

"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...

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Main Author: Fox, Margalit (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Random House, [2021]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
DonTigny, Mark tribute.
Jones, E. H. > (Elias Henry), > 1883-1942.
Hill, C. W. > (Cedric Waters), > 1891-1975.
World War, 1914-1918 > Prisoners and prisons, Turkish.
Escaped prisoners of war > Turkey > Biography.
Escaped prisoners of war > Great Britain > Biography.
Prisoner-of-war escapes > Turkey > History > 20th century.
Prisoner-of-war camps > Turkey > Yozgat (Yozgat çIli)
Swindlers and swindling.
Male friendship.
Biographies.
Table of 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.

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