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The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable...
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- Binding
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- ISBN
- 9781984853851
- Book Title
- Confidence Men : How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- True Crime, History
- Topic
- Hoaxes & Deceptions, Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Military / World War I
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 10.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Rife with cunning, danger, and moments of high farce, The Confidence Men is the true tale of a desperate escape plot and the profound, unlikely friendship required to pull it off. Had it not been for the Great War, Harry Jones, the Oxford-educated son of a British knight, and Cedric Hill, a mechanic on an Australian sheep ranch, would never have met. But imprisoned together in a remote Turkish POW camp, these two British officers use a homemade Ouija board-and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception-to build a trap for their captors that will ultimately lead them to freedom. Book jacket.
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1984853856
ISBN-13
9781984853851
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10057262701
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Book Title
Confidence Men : How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Hoaxes & Deceptions, Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Military / World War I
Publication Year
2022
Genre
True Crime, History
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
10.8 Oz
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"Enthralling . . . exceptionally entertaining." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "Tales of spunky prisoners of war suffering horrifying privation or outfoxing their sadistic or imbecilic captors are a staple of military history and the movies. . . . Fact or fiction, few of them can match the latest entry in the genre. . . . Margalit Fox's The Confidence Men tells the tale of two Allied officers captured by the Turks during World War I who escaped their remote prison camp by pulling an ingenious and elaborate spiritualist con on the camp's greedy commandant." --The Wall Street Journal "A wonder; a marvel; a feat of invention and dogged persistence; and most of all, a testament to the power of the human capacity to believe. The Confidence Men is a thrilling tale of courage and friendship and overcoming, not to mention tricks and lies and magician's cunning, and it will have you cheering the tricksters every step of the way. The story of their ingenuity offers joy, solace, and hope." --Liza Mundy, author of Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II " The Confidence Men couldn't have come along at a better time. This story of two unlikely con artists--young British officers who use a Ouija board to escape from a Turkish prisoner-of-war camp--is a true delight, guaranteed to lift the spirits of anyone eager to forget today's realities and lose oneself in a beautifully written tale of an exciting and deeply moving real-life caper." --Lynne Olson , author of Madame Fourcade's Secret War "Margalit Fox is one of the premier narrative storytellers we have today, and The Confidence Men is a wonderfully entertaining brew of history, thrills, and ingenuity, one that highlights the rare occasion when con artistry is employed for the greater public good." --Sarah Weinman , author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession "Fox tells a brisk story filled with colorful background on the magic, spiritualism, and psychiatry of the day. . . .The brisk true story of a jailbreak so bizarre it might rate an entry in Ripley's Believe It or Not!" -- Kirkus Reviews "Fox ( Conan Doyle for the Defense ), a former obituary writer for the New York Times , recounts in this marvelous history how two British army officers in WWI orchestrated 'the most singular prison break ever recorded.' . . . Fox enriches her account with intriguing deep dives into the psychology of 'coercive persuasion,' the mechanics of confidence games, and the history of spiritualism in the U.S. and England. Readers will be mesmerized by this rich and rewarding tale." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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23
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