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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 /
I followed them on a journey into nightmares, as what seemed to be a simple escape plan (simple? A lunatic escape plan of infinite complexity and unlikelihood, more like) transmuted and transformed' Neil Gaiman, from the foreword Captured during the First World War, Lieutenant E.H. Jones and Li...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London [England] :
Hesperus Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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