Project Gutenberg 2016-04-13 Public domain in the USA. 87 Jones, E. H. (Elias Henry) 1883 1942 Jones, Elias Henry Hill, C. W. (Cedric Waters) 1891 1975 Hill, Cedric Waters The Road to En-Dor Being an Account of How Two Prisoners of War at Yozgad in Turkey Won Their Way to Freedom The Road to Endor Reading ease score: 81.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. E-text prepared by KD Weeks, MWS, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (https://archive.org/details/americana) "The Road to En-Dor" by E. H. Jones is a memoir that recounts the experiences of two prisoners of war in Turkey during World War I. Likely written in the early 20th century, the book focuses on the extraordinary and often comical lengths the protagonists go to in order to regain their freedom. The main characters are Lieutenant E. H. Jones himself and Lieutenant Hill, who engage in a series of spiritualist experiments that both entertain their fellow captives and ultimately aid their escape. The opening of the memoir sets the stage for the story, revealing the dreary life of prisoners at Yozgad. After receiving a postcard from home, Jones and his companions decide to embark on exploring spiritualism as a way to pass the time. They gather a group of fellow inmates, eventually attempting to communicate with the spirit world through a Ouija board, initially with little success. However, their persistence leads to unexpected breakthroughs where they start to believe they are actually communicating with spirits, notably a character named "Sally." This combination of humor and intrigue establishes a compelling dynamic that blends camaraderie with the desperation of captivity, inviting readers to follow along with both laughter and suspense. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Spiritualism World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, Turkish Prisoner-of-war escapes Jones, E. H. (Elias Henry), 1883-1942 Hill, C. W. (Cedric Waters), 1891-1975 D501 Text Browsing: Biographies Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - General Browsing: History - Warfare 926787 926528 2024-10-21T13:55:39.637446 2023-09-22T10:44:42.548869 text/html text/html 928567 2016-04-13T16:21:38 text/html 1605008 2016-04-13T16:24:09 text/html application/zip 1790688 2024-10-21T13:55:54.849372 application/epub+zip 1790071 2024-10-21T13:55:42.297400 application/epub+zip 450534 2024-10-21T13:55:40.927413 application/epub+zip 2000073 2024-10-21T13:56:03.396307 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1937050 2024-10-21T13:55:53.182403 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 599434 2022-09-23T14:53:43.017542 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 801410 801199 2024-10-21T13:55:36.986588 2023-09-22T10:44:39.854843 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 801455 2020-06-14T16:55:22 text/plain; charset=utf-8 301044 2020-06-14T16:55:22 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 21820 2024-10-21T13:56:03.566295 application/rdf+xml 14743 2024-10-21T13:55:41.100427 image/jpeg 1827 2024-10-21T13:55:41.013413 image/jpeg 1606650 2024-10-21T13:55:39.746518 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog