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Seances, skis and secrets: an extraordinary WWI escape

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My Two Heroes Are Heaven Sent

"I really felt that my two heroes were heaven sent. One couldn't script a better buddy movie with heroes who come clearly to love each other and who depend on each other for survival," she says. "The p o w who arrived at yosgad first was elias henry jones, known as harry." He had joined the colonial service and was working as a magistrate in british burma when war broke out. And he found himself in one of the most remote camps in turkey.

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