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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 »

- - - So, its summer and youre ready for some escapist reading. But what? Well, you need look no further than Margalit Foxs 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 camps general factot...

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: Impriso...

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“The Confidence Men,” by Margalit Fox, recounts the elaborate true-life saga of two British officers who escaped from an Ottoman prison camp during World War I by brainwashing and manipulating their captors.

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