The confidence men : how two prisoners of war engineered the most remarkable escape in history
Fox, Margalit2022
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Total copies: 3
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 sances 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. The Confidence Men is a nonfiction thriller featuring strategy, mortal danger and even high farce - and chronicles a profound but unlikely friendship.
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London : Profile Books, 2022.
Collation:
352 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2021.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781788162722 (pbk)1788162722 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.4725 FOX940.4725
LC class:
D627
Language:
English
Subject:
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 DefenceWarfare and DefenceOttoman EmpireTrue war & combat storiesEuropean historyFirst World WarPopular beliefs & controversial knowledge
BRN:
392064