Seances, skis and secrets: an extraordinary WWI escape
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The Long Con - The Treasure Hunt
Camp commandant was paid by the ottoman government to keep a hundred british officers under lock and key in a place that had no locks and keys. So it took many, many months and all sorts of wonderful trickery and persuasion and sleight of hand by cedric hill to reel him in. But when they did, as jones wrote in a brief essay from the 19 thirties, about the caper,. He said, the fish is hooked at last.
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