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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, 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 w...
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 ...
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