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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

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By E. H. Jones
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The narrative recounts how two prisoners of war confined in an Ottoman camp create a sophisticated hoax based on staged séances and feigned mediumship to manipulate fellow inmates and their captors. Through invented spirit communications, theatrical tricks, and bureaucratic forgeries they extract comforts, privileges, official correspondence, and ultimately a route to freedom, while exposing the credulity and social effects of spiritualism. The account blends practical improvisation, wartime camaraderie, legal jeopardy, and comic observation of camp life.

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Title: The Road to En-Dor

Author: E. H. Jones

Photographer: C. W. Hill

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Language: English

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THE ROAD TO EN-DOR

“HILL HAD TAKEN THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPH BEFORE I WAS READY.” THE COMMANDANT, PIMPLE AND COOK AT THE FINDING OF THE FIRST CLUE TO THE TREASURE

THE ROAD TO EN-DOR

BEING AN ACCOUNT OF HOW TWO
PRISONERS OF WAR AT YOZGAD IN
TURKEY WON THEIR WAY TO FREEDOM
BY E. H. JONES, Lt. I.A.R.O.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
C. W. HILL, Lt. R.A.F.
“Oh the road to En-dor is the oldest road
And the craziest road of all!
Straight it runs to the Witch’s abode,
As it did in the days of Saul,
And nothing is changed of the sorrow in store
For such as go down on the road to En-dor!”
—Rudyard Kipling.
LONDON: JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD. W.
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY. MCMXX.
THIRD EDITION.

PRINTED BY THE ANCHOR PRESS LTD., TIPTREE, ESSEX, ENGLAND

TO
W.R. O’FARRELL,
an Irish Gentleman,
WHO, HIMSELF INJURED, TENDED THE WOUNDED
ON THE DESERT JOURNEY FROM SINAI INTO CAPTIVITY,
GOING ON FOOT THAT THEY MIGHT RIDE,
WITHOUT WATER THAT THEY MIGHT DRINK,
WITHOUT REST THAT THEIR WOUNDS MIGHT BE EASED;
AND AFTERWARDS,
WITH A COURAGE THAT NEVER FALTERED
THROUGH NEARLY THREE YEARS OF BONDAGE,
CHEERED US IN HEALTH,
NURSED US IN SICKNESS,
AND EVER FOUND HIS CHIEF HAPPINESS
IN SETTING THE COMFORT OF A COMRADE
BEFORE HIS OWN.