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A Ouija Board, Lost Treasure, and a Daring World War I Prison Break

Throughout history there have been some pretty wild prison escapes. There seems to be no end to the ingenuity displayed by those who want to escape a hellish future behind bars. These attempts range from the daring to the misguided, but they all have their place in history and some are weirder than others. Here. Read more »

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- - - So, it s summer and you re ready for some escapist reading. But what? Well, you need look no further than Margalit Fox s enthralling The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History. As Fox writes in a one-sentence summary, during World War I two British officers Elias Henry Jones and Cedric Waters Hill escaped from an isolated Turkish prison camp by means of a Ouija board. In essence, the pair convinced both the camp s general factotum, whom they nicknamed the Pimple, and its Turkish commandant that they were in communication with an otherworldly spirit who knew the location of an immense buried fortune. Having excited the greed of their captors, Jones and Hill next persuaded them that the final clue to the treasure s whereabouts could only be revealed after the two mediums, along with the Pimple and the commandant, made their way to the busy seacoast near Constantinople. I ll say no more about their ingenious scheme, ex

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Shelf Life FacebookTwitterEmail ADULT FICTION “Prime Directive” by Davis Bunn: When a number of scientists are mysteriously killed on an insignificant scientific outpost on the planet of Loria and no alarm is raised, the Galactic Space Arm is assigned to investigate. Why are the scientists being killed? Is there more to the mission than first appears? ADULT NONFICTION “The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History” by Margalit Fox: Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. Fox has written a gripping non-fiction thriller, a story of a con game played for a good cause.

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The greatest prison escape ever? | Borneo Bulletin Online

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The Confidence Men, by Margalit Fox book review - The Washington Post

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