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The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
The Confidence Men How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History Author:Margalit Fox Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during World War 1, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrfying 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 a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate seances for h... more »is fellow prisoners. Word gets around and one day an Ottoman official approaches Jones with a query: Could Jones contact the spirit world to find a vast treasure rumored to be buried nearby? Jones, a trained lawyer, and Hill, a brilliant magician, use the Ouija board---and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception---to build a trap for their captors that will ultimately lead them to freedom.
Had it not been for "the Great War" Jones, the Oxford-educated son of a British lord, and Hill, a mechanic on an Australian sheep ranch, would never have met. But in pain, lonliness, hunger and isolation, they formed a powerful emotional and intellectual alliance that save both of their lives. A gripping nonfiction thriller, The Confidence Men is the story of a con game played for a good cause and an unlikely friendship.« less