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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

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

“Hill had taken the first photograph before I was ready” (p. 180). The Commandant, Pimple, and Cook at the finding of the first clue to the treasure Frontispiece
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The Ouija 4
The lane where the prisoners exercised 48
“On fine days they snoozed at their posts”—a gamekeeper on guard in Yozgad 68
“I made my plans to go on skis and began to train” 74
“The snow on the slope of South hill”—the site of the first clue to the treasure 122
“We had four-a-side hockey tournaments” 124
The “Posh-Castle Mess” who fed us in our imprisonment 130
In the Pine Woods—“Winnie” and Nightingale on skis 164
Where the second clue was buried—Bones’s Nullah 186
“The Melancholic.”—C. W. Hill 230
“The Furious.”—E. H. Jones 232
The mad machine for uprooting England 302
Autograph photograph of Mazhar Osman Bey and five other Haidar Pasha doctors (presented to the author by Talha Bey) 332

THE ROAD TO EN-DOR

THE ROAD TO EN-DOR