The Road to En-dor By Elias Henry Jones

Format : Paperback

Condition : Used Good

Publisher: PAN BOOKS

ISBN: N/A

Pages: 254

Description

THE ROAD TO EN-DOR is the most famous of the escape books of the First World War. The author, a young Welsh officer, was one of the starving garrison of Kut-el-Amara. When the town had surrendered to the Turks, after a long siege, he was marched 500 miles to Yozgad prison camp. Here in 1917 he and his Australian companion, Lieutenant C. W. Hill, devised the extraordinary plot of deception and intrigue which brought them untold suffering but eventually gained for them their freedom. This plot centred on the use of a ÔOuija-boardÕ and the fostering, among their fellow prisoners and their Turkish guards, of the belief that the two men were really in touch with a Ôspirit mediumÕ which spelt out messages at sŽances. They succeeded in completely hoodwinking the Turks allowing them to bring about their escape.