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The road to En-dor : being an account of how two prisoners of war at Yozgad in Turkey won their way to freedom

E. H. Jones author. C. W. Hill collotyper.; Neil Gaiman author of introduction, etc.; Antony Craven Walker author of introduction, etc.; Hilary Bevan Jones author of introduction, etc.; Fraser Muggeridge Studio, designer, compositor.; Chandler Book Design, cover designer.

2014

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  • Title:
    The road to En-dor : being an account of how two prisoners of war at Yozgad in Turkey won their way to freedom
  • Author: E. H. Jones author.
  • C. W. Hill collotyper.; Neil Gaiman author of introduction, etc.; Antony Craven Walker author of introduction, etc.; Hilary Bevan Jones author of introduction, etc.; Fraser Muggeridge Studio, designer, compositor.; Chandler Book Design, cover designer.
  • Description: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; E-Book; Contents; Foreword by Neil Gaiman; Introduction; The Road to En-dor; Preface; Acknowledgements; How Spooking Began in Yozgad; How the Camp Turned Spiritualist; How the Mediums Were Tested; Of The Episode of Louise, and How It Was All Done; In Which the Reader is Introduced to the Pimple; In Which the Cook Appears and the Spook Finds a Revolver; Of The Calomel Manifestation and How Kiazim Fell Into the Net; In Which We Become Thought-Readers; How the Spook Wrote a Magic Letter and Arranged Our Arrest
    How We Were Tried and Convicted For TelepathyIn Which We Are Put on Parole by Our Colonel, and Go to Prison; Of The Comrades We Had Left Behind and How Posh Castle Played the Raven; In Which the Pimple Learns His Future Lies In Egypt; Which Introduces OOO and Tells Why the Pimple Got His Face Smacked; In Which the Spook Puts Our Colonel on Parole in His Turn, Saves the Hunt Club, and Writes a Speech; How We Fell into a Trance and Saw the Future; How The Spook Took Us Treasure-Hunting and We Photographed the Turkish Commandant; Of A 'Dreadful Explosion' and How OOO Sought To Murder Us
    Of The Four Point Receiver and How We Planned To Kidnap the Turkish Staff At YozgadIn Which We Are Foiled By a Friend; In Which We Decide To Become Mad and the Spook Gets Us Certificates of Lunacy; How the Spook Corresponded With the Turkish War Office and Got A Reply; In Which the Spook Persuades Moïse to Volunteer for Active Service; Of Our Mad Journey to Mardeen; How We Hanged Ourselves; In Which the Spook Convicts Moïse of Theft, Converts Him to Honesty, And Promises Omnipotence; Of The First Day in Haidar Pasha Hospital and the Preliminary Examination by the Specialists
    Of The Wassermann Tests and How We Deceived the Medical BoardOf Hill's Terrible Month in Gumush Suyu Hospital; In Which We Are Repatriated As Lunatics; What the Pimple Thinks Of It All - Three Letters; The Matthews-Little Code-Test; Extract From The Telepathy Code; Extract From the Secret Séance Diaries; Examples of Coded Messages from E.H. Jones Concerning the Escape; Postcard Dated 3rd March 1918; Postcard Dated 13th March 1918; Postcard Dated 15th March 1918; Postcard Dated 16th March 1918; Postcard Dated 20th March 1918; Letter Dated 27th March 1918; Notes
    The incredible true story of two WWI POWs who used amateur magic to convince their captors that they were in touch with the spirit worldCaptured during World War I, Lieutenant E. H. Jones, a Welsh officer in the Indian Army, and Lieutenant C. W. Hill, an Australian serving in the R.A.F., were prisoners of war at the Yozgad prison camp in Turkey. Duty-bound as officers to attempt to escape,
  • Publication Date: 2014
  • Publisher: London, England : Hesperus Press Limited
  • Format: 1 online resource (414 p.).
  • Identifier: ISBN 1-78094-158-7;ISBN 1-78094-160-9
  • Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, Turkish; Spiritualism; Electronic books
  • Language: English
  • Source: 01DAL UDM ALMA
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