Monday, October 06, 2025

First Paragraph

This is the true story of the most singular prison break ever recorded - a clandestine wartime operation that involved no tunneling, no weapons, and no violence of any kind. Conceived during World War I, it relied on a scheme so outrageous it should never have worked: two British officers escaped from an isolated Turkish prison camp by means of a Ouija board.

- From The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History by Margalit Fox

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